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Dear Hunter and Beau,

I was at Chairman Mollohan's farewell party Wednesday and spoke with him and senior approps staff. The $600 million COPS funding in the Senate FY11 approps omnibus is on the chopping block. Coburn and DeMint want to cut it.

The play as of right now is that the House will pass a longterm CR next week and send it to the Senate. The Senate is going to swap out the CR for the FY11 omnibus. A back room deal between the R's in the Senate who want their earmarks in FY11 might be able to convince Coburn and Demint to agree to the swap if COPS is cut.

The ICAC's have a 30 million carve out of COPS in the Senate FY11. House approps believe and advised me that this is the only really politically toxic piece of that 600 million.

I know VPOTUS staff will say this is self serving of me to say this, but it looks like a PROTECT ACT replay might be the only angle to save the whole pot of COPS $.

If you agree, national media pressure on the Senate about cutting funding for baby rapers could do the trick.

I am reaching out to Oprah's people to ask for a call to action next friday, but she's taping in Australia for a few weeks and I don't know if I can pull this off alone.

Please let me know your thoughts.
Camille
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