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August 29, 2006
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Urgent! Urgent! Urgent! Urgent! Urgent!
I know you have fought hard to preserve and protect the freedoms of our beloved nation, the United States.
But I must tell you now that if you and I don’t take immediate, strong action, no other issues will ever matter again because there will not be a United States of America to defend.
Those are not idle words.
I’m sorry to tell you that the Administration of President George W. Bush is moving rapidly, and in secret, to create a North American Union with Mexico and Canada.
The facts cannot be denied.
On March 23, 2005, President Bush, Vicente Fox, President of Mexico and (then) Canadian Prime Minster Paul Martin agreed to create the “Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP).
Since then, over 20 “working groups” have been established to implement a blueprint for a North American Union. That blueprint was written by the Council on Foreign Relations.
And the working groups, operating out of the Department of Commerce – on your tax dollars, have been following that blueprint almost to the letter.
They are creating a European Union in America. You and I must move immediately to stop them – or lose our nation forever.
First, I have prepared a special report to provide you with all of the facts. Please read it – and then pass it on to all of your friends and family and contacts.
Second, I have included addresses and phone numbers for President Bush and to both the House and Senate leadership, Call them and demand they stop this effort immediately. See all the details below.
There is no time to lose.
If we don’t stop the North American Union, all will be lost. Issues like property rights, privacy rights, illegal immigration, voluntary prayer will all be lost at one time.
It’s urgent that you and I sound the alarm and expose it.
You and I must stop the North American Union – or it will be the end of the dreams of Washington, Jefferson and the great men who founded this nation. And it’s the end of your dreams of living in freedom. It is the end of the United States.
North American Union Fact Sheet
The effort is in its infancy, however the Bush Administration has been operating in secret for at least two years to establish what can only be described as a North American Union with Mexico and Canada, along the same lines as the European Union. It eventually means an end to the U.S. Constitution as our ruling document, replaced instead with a new North American Government.
It will eventually lead to the surrender of U.S. sovereignty, independence, and national borders. It will result in the establishment of a North American currency called the “Amero,” as the dollar is junked.
The U.S. will provide the army for defense. The U.S. will provide Social Security benefits for those who are now citizens of Mexico and Canada. Gone will be U.S. citizenship. Gone will be any kind of border control between the three nations of North America.
Plans are well underway to establish a NAFTA Super Highway, to be the width of eight football fields. It will run from Mexico to Canada, running through the middle of the United States. No tariffs or no inspections will be enforced as trucks from Mexico and Canada drive through this nation.
Kansas City, MO has been tapped to serve as an “inland port” to handle imports and exports among the three nations. Operating quietly, Kansas City has already designated $2.5 million of its taxpayer’s money to establish the port. Now, some say the land the port sits on will become officially Mexican sovereign territory.
The effort began on March 23, 2005, after a summit, held in Waco, TX. It was attended by President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and (then) Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. The three leaders signed an agreement to create common policies concerning various economic and security areas among the three nations.
For obvious cover of official deniability, the term “North American Union” is not being used. Instead, the agreement officially authorized eight tri-national “working groups” to establish the “Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). The concept is being sold as simply a new framework within which the member nations can create free trade and security within the North American continent. However, based on working documents, the intent to create the North American Union is impossible to hide.
The trilateral agreement, signed as a joint declaration, has not been submitted to Congress for review. There is no congressional oversight.
Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP)
The joint statement on the SPP, issued on March, 23, 2005 described it as an initiative to: “…establish a common approach to security to protect North America from external threats, prevent and respond to threats within North America, and further streamline the security and efficient movement of legitimate, low-risk traffic across our shared borders.”
The working groups are now laying the foundation for a European Union-style integration of the North American continent.
The White House has established the SPP office in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) office in the U.S. Department of Commerce, where it has worked in virtual secrecy for two years. As the process proceeds, the SPP groups have not released public reports on their activities.
Over the past two years, at least 20 SPP working groups have produced a number of memorandums of understanding and trilateral declarations of agreement. These agreements cover a wide variety of issues including, e-commerce, aviation policy, border and immigration policy, and the means for multiple governmental agencies to interact. They may be viewed on the Internet at http://www.spp.gov.
Council on Foreign Relations Blue Print
Many SPP working groups appear to be working toward achieving specific objectives as defined by a May, 2005 Council on Foreign Relations(CFR) task force report, which presented a blueprint for expanding the SPP agreement into a North American Union that would merge the U.S., Canada and Mexico into a new governmental form.
The CFR report is entitled “Building a North American Community,” and is essentially a five year plan for implementing the North American Union. It may be viewed at the CFR Internet web sight at http://www.cfr.org.
A member of the CFR taskforce, Dr. Robert Pastor, wrote a book, published in 2001, titled “Toward a North American Commission.” The CFR taskforce report and the official SPP agreement carry almost identical language as the Pastor’s book.
The book, the CFR task force and the SPP agreement call for the establishment of a North American Competitiveness Council to pull in the private sector to the SPP process. In addition, all three call for the establishment of a “North American Advisory Council,” which is to be an “independent body of advisors,” composed of “eminent persons from outside the government.”
In 2002, Dr. Pastor addressed the Trilateral Commission, calling for the establishment of a North American Investment Fund that would supplement World Bank funds expended in a trilateral effort to develop Mexico economically. The May, 2005 CFR report called for the same fund. Efforts are now underway in the SPP to officially establish the fund.
The CFR Task Force calls for the “creation by 2010 of a North American community to enhance security, prosperity, and opportunity. We propose a community based on the principle affirmed in the March, 2005 Joint Statement of the three leaders (of the three nations) that ‘our security and prosperity are mutually dependent and complementary.’ Its boundaries will be defined by a common external tariff and an outer security perimeter within the movement of people, products and capital will be legal, orderly, and safe.”
To those ends, the CFR report called for establishment of a common security border perimeter around North America by 2010, along with free movement of people, commerce and capital to be facilitated by the establishment of a North American Border Pass that would replace a U.S. passport for travel between the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Also envisioned by the CFR task force include a North American Court, a North American inter-parliamentary group, A North American Executive Commission, a North American Military Defense Command, a North American Customs Office and a North American Development Bank.
The task force report is important to the debate over the official Security and Prosperity Partnership because the language used in the CFR task force report and SPP documents, so far, have proven to be nearly identical. Clearly the CFR task force report is being used as the blue print to establish the North American Union.
No Congressional Authorization or Oversight
To date, Congress has passed no specific legislation to authorize the activities of the SPP, nor to funds it is spending. Congress has had no official involvement in the process and has no oversight.
Congressman Tom Tancredo, (R-Colo) has demanded that the Bush Administration fully disclose the activities of the SPP working groups, including revealing the names of the members of those groups. No answers to his demands have yet been received from the Bush Administration, though the activity continues to move forward.
NAFTA Super Highway
Quietly, the Bush Administration is working to advance a plan to build super highways through the heart of the United States to transport goods from Mexico and Canada. The highways are part of the original North American Free Trade Agreement, (NAFTA). The plan is now being advanced through an operation called “North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc” (NASCO). Since being exposed to the general public, NASCO is now denying it is building the highways, but plans go forward.
Beginning at the southern tip of Mexico, passing through Laredo, TX, the highway heads to an “inland port” in Kansas City, where a “Sentry System” will electronically inspect the cargos, before they head East or West, or continue on North through Duluth, Minnesota and into Canada.
The Super Transnational System includes multiple lanes for cars and trucks. Speed limits will be relaxed as well as safety inspections for vehicles from Mexico and Canada. Trucks will be allowed to carry extra tonnage and be extra long. A Railway system will travel up the center of the highway.
Several such highways are contemplated. Environmental impact studies have already been completed. In Texas, efforts are already underway as 584,000 acres have been targets for takings through Eminent Domain.
Kansas City Customs Port to be Mexican Soil
Kansas City will serve as an “inland port” for the NAFTA Superhighway. It will be the first, and perhaps ONLY check point and disbursement center for trucks bringing their cargos into this country from Mexico and Canada. The official organization in charge of setting up the port is KCSmartPort.
As part of the inland port, a Mexican Customs office is being established. The Kansas City Council has voted a $2.5 million loan to KCSmartPort to build the Mexican customs facility in the West Bottoms near Kemper Area on city-owned land east of Liberty Street and mostly south of Interstate 670.
According to e-mails and other documents obtained by World Net Daily, top executives with the KCSmartPort project, suggest the facility “would need to be designated as Mexican sovereign territory and meet certain requirements.”
The negotiations with Mexico and the U.S. State Department for the final approval of the Mexican Customs office are proceeding in secret.
The “Amero,” Merging U.S., Canadian and Mexican Currencies
Though it will take some years to finalize, plans are being laid to create a new currency for the coming North American Union, much like the Euro replaced the currencies of individual countries of the European Union. The Amero would replace the U.S. Dollar, Peso and Canadian Dollar.
The plan has been specifically promoted through Dr. Pastor’s book, the blueprint for the rest of the SPP plan, and now may be officially moving through the establishment of a new SPP effort called the “Financial Services Work Group.” To date, it is too early to tell exactly when such a change would move forward, but it is being discussed in high places.
The issue is so controversial that U.S. officials deny it has even been discussed.
A new government for North America
Many Americans simply do not believe that the United States would voluntarily give up its sovereignty to a North American Union. Those who think this way somehow believe that there will be a vote of the American people to decide.
It is little understood that such actions are done incrementally, behind closed doors, until the plans are so far along that stopping them becomes nearly impossible. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was sold as simply a way for American producers to broaden their markets. So too, was the European Union sold to the proud, ancient nations of that continent. Today, a new, socialist government rules them, complete with a ruling body, a new currency, a tax system, court system and a defense system — all the ingredients necessary for a government.
Operating in secret, SPP working groups are efficiently laying the groundwork for the destruction of the United States of America. Once the North American Union is in place, we will then have to compromise our very unique nation of protected freedoms with the socialist nations of Mexico and Canada, where property rights, justice, economics and natural rights are not recognized. Government decides.
The Security and Prosperity Partnership is about neither. It is not a plan simply to help sell American goods to larger markets. It is not a plan to help keep our nation safer in a security partnership with Mexico and Canada. Shutting our borders, not opening them, would do far more to accomplish that goal. The SPP is about creating a continental government.
The SPP is an invasion of our culture and our economy. It’s about the redistribution of American wealth and industry. It is the end of over 250 years of an historic experiment in freedom – unless Americans across the nation say no – now.
This report is produced by The American Policy Center, 70 Main Street, Suite 23, Warrenton, VA 20186. 540-341-8911 http://www.americapolicy.org . Much of the information for this report was contained in material produced by investigative journalist Jerome Corsi. His reports on the North American Union may be found on World Net Daily, http://www.worldnetdaily.com. Human Events, http://www.humanevents.com. More information was provided by Dr. Steven Yates, “The United States of North America,” The ecologic Powerhouse, http://www.freedom.org. The blueprint for the North American Union may be viewed in it’s entirety on the web site of the Council on Foreign Relations, http://www.cfr.org and the official reports of the SPP working groups, now operating out of the U.S. Department of Commerce, may be viewed at http://www.spp.gov.
Action to take
1.Call or write both of your United States Senators.
Tell them you oppose the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) and you want a Congressional investigation into the secret efforts by SPP working groups now underway at the Department of Commerce. Tell them you demand full disclosure of these activities.
How to call:
Place a call to the U.S. Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121
Ask for your Senators by name and the switchboard operator will connect you to his/her office.
How to Write:
Senator ____________________________
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
2.Call or write to your congressman and demand that he/she take immediate action to investigate the SPP.
Tell him/her you oppose the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) and you want a Congressional investigation into the secret efforts by SPP working groups now underway at the Department of Commerce. Tell them you demand full disclosure of these activities.
How to call:
Place a call to the U.S. Capitol Switchboard: (202) 225-3121
Ask for your Congressman by name and the switchboard operator will connect you to his/her office.
How to Write:
Congressman ____________________________
United States House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
3. Call or write the White House and protest the SPP
The more pressure we put on the White House, the greater chance to kill the efforts to create the North American Union. They are operating in secret because they don’t want you to know. Let them know you are on to the scheme and demand that it be stopped.
How to call the White House: 202-456-1111 – leave your message
How to write:
President of the United States
The White House, Washington, D.C. 20500
4. Share your “Fact Sheet” and this alert with as many friends and neighbors as possible. Permission is granted to reprint as many copies as you can.
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August 21, 2006
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Urgent! Urgent! Urgent! Urgent! Urgent!
Please read the following release from Peyton Knight of the National Center for Public Policy Research and then take the urgent action I’ve outlined at the end of the article. (Peyton Knight is the nation’s foremost expert on National Heritage Areas.) Tom DeWeese
For more information contact: Peyton Knight
(202) 543-4110 or pknight@nationalcenter.org
Washington, D.C. – Nearly one year after the U.S. Supreme Court’s shocking Kelo v. New London decision touched off a firestorm of bipartisan support for stronger property rights protections, some anti-property rights groups are receiving support from a surprising source: Senator George Allen (R-VA).
Senator Allen is the chief sponsor of legislation that would create a massive federal “National Heritage Area” that would stretch from Charlottesville, VA, through Frederick County, MD, and end in Gettysburg, PA. Such areas are best described as heavily regulated corridors where property rights may be strictly curtailed.
Allen’s bill would deputize special interest groups — many with clear anti-property rights agendas — and federal employees to oversee land use policy in the corridor.
“Senator Allen often describes himself as a ‘Jeffersonian’ conservative, which he defines as someone who doesn’t like ‘nanny, meddling, restrictive, burdensome government,’” said Peyton Knight, director of environmental and regulatory affairs at the National Center. “However, if you fail to support your rhetoric with substance, you’re all hat and no cattle.”
Sen. Allen’s initiative in some ways resembles a pork-barrel earmark, as it disburses funds to pre-selected preservationist interest groups. Unfortunately, it is even worse than an earmark, as it would threaten property rights by:
1) Creating a “management entity” to oversee land use policy in the area composed of groups that have a record of being hostile to property rights.
2) Directing this management entity to create an inventory of all property it wants “preserved,” “managed” or “acquired.”
3) Giving the management entity the authority to disburse federal funds for the purpose of land acquisition and restricting land use – an enticement for such activities.
“This is a transparent effort by ‘not in my back yard’ elitists to milk millions of dollars from the nation’s taxpayers to mandate gentrification of their rural landscape. These bluebloods want their pretty views and bucolic fields preserved in perpetuity at the expense of property rights, small landowners and farmers, and taxpayers,” said Robert J. Smith, a senior fellow at the National Center.
“It is remarkably similar to the exclusionary zoning for ‘green space’ and ‘open space’ that roiled New Jersey politics and communities for a quarter century,” Smith adds. “Such policies were ruled unconstitutional by the New Jersey Supreme Court in the Mount Laurel decisions for being economically and racially discriminatory, and as an effort to lock out low and moderate income families and especially people of color, blacks and Hispanics.”
Mychal Massie, national chairman of the African-American leadership network Project 21, which is affiliated with the National Center, notes the impact of Allen’s bill will be felt disproportionately.
“Senator Allen’s Heritage Area scheme is further evidence of the chasm that develops between working families and elected representatives once they are in office,” said Massie. “Allen’s measure would restrict and limit land use to all but the very wealthiest, and would severely and unjustly handicap families and individuals of moderate means.”
Dr. Roger Pilon, director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies, notes the irony that overzealous preservationists at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello are corrupting Jefferson’s legacy, ostensibly in an effort to protect it: “They want to traduce Jefferson’s views in order to save his views.”
Citizens of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania might look to property owners caught within the boundaries of the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area in Arizona to catch a glimpse of their possible future.
The Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Resources has filed a report explaining the situation in Yuma. The report, which accompanies legislation designed to amend the Yuma Heritage Area in order to protect property owners, states:
“When the Yuma Crossing Heritage Area was authorized in 2000, the public in Yuma County did not understand the scope of the project and was surprised by the size of the designation… Concerns were raised by citizens about the size of the designation and the potential for additional Federal oversight. The fear of adverse impacts on private property rights were realized when local government agencies began to use the immense heritage area boundary to determine zoning restrictions.”
Thomas Jefferson was quite clear in his views regarding property rights when he wrote: “The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.”
Robert J. Smith adds: “No one supporting such plans and legislation attacking the underlying principles of a free society can conceivably then have the hubris to attempt to wrap themselves in the mantle of Mr. Jefferson’s belief in individual liberty, or in Ronald Reagan’s inclusive conservative Republicanism.”
“It dishonors 250 years of American history and freedom-from Abraham Lincoln’s genuine Hallowed Grounds in Gettysburg to Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello mountaintop,” he said.
For more information on this issue, see “The Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area: An Example of How Pork-Barrel Politics Can Threaten Local Rule and Property Rights,” by Peyton Knight, available online at http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA540HallowedGround.html, or “Assertions vs. Reality: The Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Act of 2006,” by Peyton Knight, available online at http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA548.html.
Action to Take:
1. It’s urgent that you contact Senator Allen’s office to protest his sponsorship of the “Journey Through Hallowed Ground Heritage Area” (Bill number S.2645). Tell him you oppose this massive land grab. Senator Allen is in a massive fight for reelection, so your calls and letters will have a powerful impact on him.
We can stop this legislation in its tracks – but only if we act now!
Call or write his Washington Office at:
Washington D.C. Office:
204 Russell Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510
Main: (202) 224-4024
Fax: (202) 224-5432
You will also make a powerful impact on Senator Allen if you call or write any or all of his District Offices located throughout Virginia:
Central Virginia Office:
507 East Franklin Street
Richmond, VA 23219
Main: (804) 771-2221
Fax: (804) 771-8313
Hampton Roads Office:
222 Central Park Avenue
Suite 120
Virginia Beach, VA 23462
Main: (757) 518-1674
Fax: (757) 518-1679
Northern Virginia Office:
2214 Rock Hill Road
Suite 100
Herndon, VA 20170
Main: (703) 435-0039
Fax: (703) 435-3446
Central Virginia Office:
507 East Franklin Street
Richmond, VA 23219
Main: (804) 771-2221
Fax: (804) 771-8313
Western & Valley Office:
3140 Chaparral Drive
Bldg. C, Suite 101
Roanoke, VA 24018
Main: (540) 772-4236
Fax: (540) 772-6870
Southwest Virginia Office:
332 Cummings Street
Suite C
Abingdon, VA 24210
Main: (276) 676-2646
Fax: (276) 676-2588
Western & Valley Office:
3140 Chaparral Drive
Bldg. C, Suite 101
Roanoke, VA 24018
Main: (540) 772-4236
Fax: (540) 772-6870
2. There is one hero in this fight to stop the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Heritage Area. Maryland Congressman Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) has refused to sign on to the House version of the bill (HR 5195). The Heritage Area will go right through his District. So he is under tremendous pressure to give in and support it. He needs to hear from you.
Call or write Rep. Bartlett and thank him for standing strong for property rights and against the Heritage Area. Tell him he has your support and urge him to continue to stand strong.
Washington D.C. office:
2412 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-2006
Phone: (202) 225-2721
Fax: (202) 225-2193
Internet: http://www.house.gove/bartlett/
District Offices:
Cumberland Office
1 Frederick Street, Suite 2
Cumberland, MD 21502
Phone: (301) 724-3105
Fax: (301) 724 –3538
Frederick Office
7360 Guilford Drive, Suite 101
Frederick, Maryland 21704
Phone: (301)694-3030
Fax: (301) 694-6674
Hagerstown Office
11377 Robinwood Drive
Hagerstown, MD 21742
Phone: (301) 797-6043
Fax: (301) 797-2385
3. Be sure to call or write your own member of Congress and your States two United States Senators.
Tell them you are opposed to the Journey Through Hallowed Ground heritage Area. House Bill number HR 5195. Senate Bill number S.2645.
House Switchboard:
(202) 225-3121 (ask for your Representative by name)
Address:
Congressman
United States House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
Senate Switchboard:
(202) 224-3121 (ask for your two Senators by name)
Address:
Senator
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
We can stop this massive land grab, but only if we act now with force. We must show these members of congress that there is strong opposition. The proponents are rich, powerful and are putting massive pressure on Congress to pass the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Heritage Area.
Please call today and pass this alert on to at least 10 more people. Urgent!
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August 15, 2006
By Tom DeWeese
Activist judges have been a plague on American liberty for decades. Many of their rulings, based more on political agendas than the rule of law, are affecting individual states’ authority to their 10th Amendment right to republican rule and is a threat to liberty.
For example, the Supreme Court has used its powers to, in effect, overturn the abortion laws of all 50 states. After the Roe V Wade decision, states under threat of further legal action were forced to rewrite their laws to fit the decision of the court; In Alabama, Judge Roy Moore was forced to remove the Ten Commandments from the State Supreme Court grounds because a Federal judge declared the monument to be unconstitutional. Now there is a looming danger that Federal judges with political agendas will use their bench powers to overturn voter-approved ballot measures and legislative efforts in such issues as dealing with the definition of marriage.
So great is the power of activist judges that school boards are literally banning everything from voluntary prayer in schools, to wearing a tee shirt with a Christian message, for fear federal courts will take action against school officials. Across the nation, the outrageous spectacle of communities banned from displaying nativity scenes during the Christmas season is all too common.
Activist judges have declared themselves the power over state legislatures, school boards and city councils. Prayer in public places, personal privacy and now marriage laws are under siege from federal courts. Courts, in turn, are responding to a battery of lawsuits filed by such predatory activist groups as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) – making the ACLU more powerful than locally-elected officials.
All of this is resulting in an agenda of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
Americans have long wanted something done about this situation. The answer now comes from Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX). He has just introduced the “We The People” Act (H.R. 5739).
The We The People Act forbids Federal Courts, including the Supreme Court, from adjudicating cases concerning State laws and polices relating to religious liberties or “privacy” including cases involving sexual practices, sexual orientation or reproduction. The We the People Act also protects the traditional definition of marriage from judicial activism by ensuring the Supreme Court cannot abuse the equal protection clause to redefine marriage.
ACTION TO TAKE: Congress will only use its constitutional powers to restrain activist judges if and when it hears from the American people. And there is only one way the We The People Act will get a fair hearing and a vote in the Congress. It needs co-sponsors – lots of them.
1. Call or write your Congressman and tell him/her to take a stand against activist judges by supporting the We The People Act (H.R. 5739). Most importantly, urge them to sign on as cosponsors of the bill. The bill needs at least 100 cosponsors, to get a fair hearing in the House Judiciary Committee.
Phone calls and letters are the most effective way to contact Congress. E-mails and faxes are many times ignored. Members of Congress have been changing their e-mail addresses and fax numbers when we send out alerts. You can send an e-mail by going to each member’s website at http://thomas.gov.
How to call: Place a call to the U.S. Capitol Switchboard: 202-225-3121. Ask for your congressman by name and the operator will connect your to his/her office.
How to Write: Congressman _______________________
United States House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
2. Call or write Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Chairman of the Judiciary Committee to let him know you support the bill. He is the one who will determine the fate of the bill in committee.
Committee on the Judiciary Phone: 202-225-3951
Address: 2138 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20515-6216
