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Contact Congress NOW to Stop Chinese Counterfeits
DonWillis
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PASSAGE OF HR 5977 IS NOW UP TO YOU
All dealers need to contact their Members of Congress NOW, and urge them to co-sponsor HR 5977 – The “Collectible Coin Protection Act.” This bill has no financial impact on the national budget (it is “revenue neutral”), and each additional co-sponsor is critical for its prospects for passage.
It only takes a minute -- to find your Member of Congress, go to www.house.gov and follow the prompts. For a complete copy of HR 5977, go to www.thomas.gov and follow the prompts or go to ICTA’s website www.ictaonline.org Click on the What’s New tab.
Send your message via email, phone, or fax. (Snail mail is no longer the method of choice for communicating with your Members of Congress because it has to undergo so many security checks.) And let Political Consultant Jimmy Hayes know which Member of Congress you’ve contacted by sending him a message at jjjbluedog@aol.com
PLEASE DON’T PUT THIS OFF – YOU NEED TO ACT NOW
When you send your message via your Member of Congress’ website, all you need do is copy the message below into the email box. If the website asks for “Subject,” you likely will list “Other” or “Miscellaneous.” If you fax your message, be sure to include your full name and mailing address so your Member of Congress knows you are a constituent from his/her congressional district. If your business is in a different congressional district from your home, send your message to the Members of Congress who represent both your home and business districts.
Your message to your Member of Congress should be:
As your constituent, I urge you to sign on as a co-sponsor of H.R. 5977, “The Collectible Coin Protection Act.” The bill was introduced on June 12 by Reps. Lamar Smith and Fred Upton, chairs of the Judiciary and Energy & Commerce Committees, respectively.
The bill provides a means whereby US citizens can take legal action against purveyors of the high-quality counterfeit US coins entering our marketplace from China by expanding enforcement power of The Hobby Protection Act. The Hobby Protection Act has been in effect since its passage in December, 1975, but lacks enforcement power that HR 5977 now provides.
HR 5977 is revenue neutral and contains no controversial issues.
A copy of The Hobby Protection Act is available at http://www.collectors.org/Library/Hobby_Protection_Act.asp Please contact me if you have any questions or need additional information. Thank you in advance for your support.
Industry Council for Tangible Assets (ICTA), Inc.
Since 1983, the national trade association for the rare coin, currency, and precious metals industry. PO Box 1365, Severna Park, MD 21146-8365. PH: 410-626-7005 FX: 410-626-7007. www.ictaonline.org
All dealers need to contact their Members of Congress NOW, and urge them to co-sponsor HR 5977 – The “Collectible Coin Protection Act.” This bill has no financial impact on the national budget (it is “revenue neutral”), and each additional co-sponsor is critical for its prospects for passage.
It only takes a minute -- to find your Member of Congress, go to www.house.gov and follow the prompts. For a complete copy of HR 5977, go to www.thomas.gov and follow the prompts or go to ICTA’s website www.ictaonline.org Click on the What’s New tab.
Send your message via email, phone, or fax. (Snail mail is no longer the method of choice for communicating with your Members of Congress because it has to undergo so many security checks.) And let Political Consultant Jimmy Hayes know which Member of Congress you’ve contacted by sending him a message at jjjbluedog@aol.com
PLEASE DON’T PUT THIS OFF – YOU NEED TO ACT NOW
When you send your message via your Member of Congress’ website, all you need do is copy the message below into the email box. If the website asks for “Subject,” you likely will list “Other” or “Miscellaneous.” If you fax your message, be sure to include your full name and mailing address so your Member of Congress knows you are a constituent from his/her congressional district. If your business is in a different congressional district from your home, send your message to the Members of Congress who represent both your home and business districts.
Your message to your Member of Congress should be:
As your constituent, I urge you to sign on as a co-sponsor of H.R. 5977, “The Collectible Coin Protection Act.” The bill was introduced on June 12 by Reps. Lamar Smith and Fred Upton, chairs of the Judiciary and Energy & Commerce Committees, respectively.
The bill provides a means whereby US citizens can take legal action against purveyors of the high-quality counterfeit US coins entering our marketplace from China by expanding enforcement power of The Hobby Protection Act. The Hobby Protection Act has been in effect since its passage in December, 1975, but lacks enforcement power that HR 5977 now provides.
HR 5977 is revenue neutral and contains no controversial issues.
A copy of The Hobby Protection Act is available at http://www.collectors.org/Library/Hobby_Protection_Act.asp Please contact me if you have any questions or need additional information. Thank you in advance for your support.
Industry Council for Tangible Assets (ICTA), Inc.
Since 1983, the national trade association for the rare coin, currency, and precious metals industry. PO Box 1365, Severna Park, MD 21146-8365. PH: 410-626-7005 FX: 410-626-7007. www.ictaonline.org
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From your lips to God's ear.
peacockcoins
Done.
Thanks for all you do at PCGS.
Too many positive BST transactions with too many members to list.
<< <i> Done about a week ago >>
Likewise...
mbogoman
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Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...
Here is the link from the previous thread to the:
Bill Summary & Status
112th Congress (2011 - 2012)
H.R.5977
Gladly done!
Michael Kittle Rare Coins --- 1908-S Indian Head Cent Grading Set --- No. 1 1909 Mint Set --- Kittlecoins on Facebook --- Long Beach Table 448
"Provision of Assistance or Support- It shall be a violation of subsection (a) or (b) for a person to provide substantial assistance or support to any manufacturer, importer, or seller if that person knows or consciously avoids knowing that the manufacturer, importer, or seller is engaged in any act or practice that violates subsection"
What is considered 'substantial assistance' and of what? (10, 100, 1000 coins/minutes/bytes/words?) How can they prove that you 'consciously avoid' anything? (Are there Federal mind readers on payroll?)
What happens to the poor soul that unknowingly tries to sell their yard sale find of 1,000 counterfeit coins?! Grandma's going to prison!
What happens to commerce sites like Craigslist, eBay, Amazon, etc? They're going to need a full-time staff to monitor every auction... and if counterfeit sales slip through the cracks?
Once again, the government can't adequately enforce existing laws (counterfeiting coins), so it extends its authority to be more general (and harder to enforce)...
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<< <i>I discussed the matter with my Member of Congress a couple of weeks ago and was basically told the matter is being looked at by some House subcommittee now of which he is not a part of. So until it the bill makes it out of that committee and makes it to the full House floor for a vote, there's really nothing he is able to do. Anyone know which committee has the bill now and which members are a part of that committee??? Our efforts may be more productive if we can target those members who can actually do something at this time. >>
This is BS. He is supposed to be your voice in Washington. He can contact the members of that sub-committee himself, or have his staff talk to their staffs, to let them know that he supports the legislation and that it is important to his constituents.
If he cares.
As au58 pointed out, most don't even expend the slightest effort to investigate or use their staff to track down even the simplest of requests - - UNLESS there's something in it for them.
- - Dave
<< <i>Unfortunately, I'm sure Congress will give this bill their utmost attention, just as soon as they return from whatever vacations they are on, or finish voting on important issues for the well-being of our country, like whether or not to designate next week as "Polish Sausage Appreciation Week".......
As au58 pointed out, most don't even expend the slightest effort to investigate or use their staff to track down even the simplest of requests - - UNLESS there's something in it for them.
- - Dave
<< <i>Unfortunately, I'm sure Congress will give this bill their utmost attention, just as soon as they return from whatever vacations they are on, or finish voting on important issues for the well-being of our country, like whether or not to designate next week as "Polish Sausage Appreciation Week".......
As au58 pointed out, most don't even expend the slightest effort to investigate or use their staff to track down even the simplest of requests - - UNLESS there's something in it for them.
- - Dave
They don't really care what is says - if enough of their constituents voice support, they will support. There is something in it for them: happy constituents = re-election.
No Way Out: Stimulus and Money Printing Are the Only Path Left
Unfortunately, I doubt all the coin collectors/dealers on this Forum or elsewhere make up an even INSIGNIFICANT percentage of each Congressman's constituency so as to sway them into wasting their time & effort to push this bill........ not when they can be making so much more per hour accepting corporate graft or pandering to the fears/wishes/prejudices of the larger voting blocs they actually need to get re-elected. I seriously doubt voters would be shocked and dismayed to learn their Congressman did nothing to stop Chinese fakes from appearing on the coin market. From our perspective, it's an important issue. From the perspective of the remaining 99% of the electorate, it's nowhere on the radar...............
- - Dave
<< <i>derryb:
Unfortunately, I doubt all the coin collectors/dealers on this Forum or elsewhere make up an even INSIGNIFICANT percentage of each Congressman's constituency so as to sway them into wasting their time & effort to push this bill........ not when they can be making so much more per hour accepting corporate graft or pandering to the fears/wishes/prejudices of the larger voting blocs they actually need to get re-elected. I seriously doubt voters would be shocked and dismayed to learn their Congressman did nothing to stop Chinese fakes from appearing on the coin market. From our perspective, it's an important issue. From the perspective of the remaining 99% of the electorate, it's nowhere on the radar...............
- - Dave
You don't know until you put it on your representatives radar. I know people who don't vote because it's just one measly vote.
No Way Out: Stimulus and Money Printing Are the Only Path Left
<< <i>You don't know until you put it on your representatives radar. >>
Don't know about your reps, but none of mine have ever given any hint that they gave a sh*t about the things I tried to put on their radar.
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Someone else please pick up the slack and send this on to your representitive.
"As your constituent, I urge you to sign on as a co-sponsor of H.R. 5977, “The Collectible Coin Protection Act.” The bill was introduced on June 12 by Reps. Lamar Smith and Fred Upton, chairs of the Judiciary and Energy & Commerce Committees, respectively.
The bill provides a means whereby US citizens can take legal action against purveyors of the high-quality counterfeit US coins entering our marketplace from China by expanding enforcement power of The Hobby Protection Act. The Hobby Protection Act has been in effect since its passage in December, 1975, but lacks enforcement power that HR 5977 now provides.
HR 5977 is revenue neutral and contains no controversial issues."
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