Currently, the stimulus package is being reconciled by a committee appointed
from the House and Senate.

This committee is made up of 10 members and in order to get metric into the
package we need to contact them before the bill is reintroduced into the house.

The best way to do this is a personal phone call followed by a fax or email.
Please do this as soon as you can and pass this note on to your friends and
family.

I have an intuition that President-Elect Obama and some of the members of his transitional team has either a pro-metric policy already formulated as an implicit and unexpressed policy, or that either of them can easily be persuaded of the need for its timely introduction and implementation through Congressional legislation, given a skilful Lobbyist.

Celsius temperature is easy for an American to learn. The way to success is NOT to convert, but to get used to interpreting Celsius readings. Zero degrees C is the freezing point of water, so ice forms--or melts---at 0 C. Single numbers to teens are chilly to cool. Room temperature, or a comfortable day outdoors, would be in the low 20s. Over 30? A very warm to hot summer day. Normal body temperature is a toasty 37. Water boils at 100.

Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
Public Relations Director
U.S. Metric Association (USMA), Inc.
http://www.metric.org