Letter to Rep. Barbara Lee

from Old Chatham Friends Meeting

October 15, 2001

Representative Barbara Lee
426 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515-0509

Dear Barbara Lee:

Old Chatham Monthly Meeting (Quakers) wishes to express our deep appreciation for your vote against granting wider war powers to the President. As members of the Religious Society of Friends, we seek nonviolent solutions to all conflicts and repudiate war under any circumstance. We were dismayed that there was only one such vote in Congress and awed that you had the courage to cast it. We commend you for staying on the path you think is right, despite enormous pressure from all sides.

We hope and pray that others in Congress will come forward to urge restraint and encourage diplomacy over war in finding solutions to terrorism around the world.

Peace,