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Enter your friends' e-mail addresses, separated by spaces: Below is the letter that will be sent to your friends. We encourage you to personalize it: ******* www.drcnet.org/forfeiture/ ******* Dear Friend, I'm writing you on a matter of great national importance. Under current asset forfeiture laws, government police agencies can seize property -- bank accounts, cars, even houses and entire properties -- without having to prove the guilt of the owner, four out of five times never ever even filing charges! Horror story after horror story shows how widely asset forfeiture is abused and how the innocent are at risk of losing everything. The Senate Judiciary Committee is about to vote on a bill that would begin to address this horrific, unjust situation. Please visit http://www.drcnet.org/forfeiture/ to send a free e-mail or fax message to your Senators in support of this important bill. The bill is S. 1931, sponsored by Sen. Orrin Hatch, a conservative Republican from Utah, and Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat. Last year the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to pass a forfeiture reform bill, H.R. 1658, sponsored by impeachment combatants Henry Hyde, John Conyers, Bob Barr and Barney Frank. Though S. 1931 doesn't go as far as H.R. 1658, it would still enact meaningful reforms and is worth supporting. The committee has scheduled a vote for Thurday, March 2nd, so please visit http://www.drcnet.org/forfeiture/ today and make your voice heard! (If you miss the deadline, please send your letter anyway, because the entire Senate will still have to vote on it, and committee votes sometimes get postponed.) If S. 1931 fails to get passed, it will become that much more difficult to pass a forfeiture reform bill in the future. Please take action today! After you have visited http://www.drcnet.org/forfeiture and sent your Congressional e-mail, please call your Senators too and let them know how you feel. Write down their phone numbers when our system provides them, or just call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be transferred.