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Here is the North Dakota information section of UporDownVote.com. It has the contact information for our 2 Democratic Senators in Washington as well as a generic message that you can copy and paste to your e-mail. It only takes about 2 minutes to do both.

Here is the entire generic message:

I am writing to urge you to support President Bush's nominees to the nation's federal courts during the 109th Congress. President Bush has nominated qualified jurists who will uphold the laws of the land and not legislate from the bench. These nominees deserve your support.

If you cannot support the President's judicial nominees, however, I urge you to do your constitutional duty and at least give them the courtesy of a vote. During 2003 and 2004, some U.S. Senators took the unprecedented step of filibustering President Bush's judicial nominees. In fact, 20% of President Bush's circuit court nominees did not even get an up or down vote. This is totally unacceptable!

Our courts are the backbone of our judicial system. Without judges on the bench, our judicial system cannot operate effectively. As a result of the vacancy crisis facing many of our federal courts, our system of democracy is being jeopardized. You can do something to correct this problem by ensuring that the President's nominees get a vote on the floor of the U.S. Senate.

It is in that spirit that I urge you to support the President's judicial nominees and give them the vote they deserve.

Thank you for your consideration.

These 2 are in a bind on this issue, Conrad especially. We all know that he is up for re-election next year and needs to satisfy his constituents or forever be known as Tom Daschle II. Unfortunately for him I suspect his party leaders and the majority of his constituents have deep disagreements on this issue. It'll be interesting to see what Sen. Conrad decides to do.