Last week, the House approved Rep. Bill Thomas’ (R-CA) estate tax repeal reduction bill. This week, the Senate will take up the issue when it begins debate on estate tax near-repeal. Senate majority leader Bill Frist (R-TN) is expected to ask for a vote to end debate to bring the Senate’s version of the house bill to a full floor vote. To garner the 60 votes needed to end debate Frist will have to convince three Democrats to vote for cloture. Because of your e-mails two weeks ago, the Senate was persuaded to refuse to kill the estate tax. We’ll do it again this week! Take Action! E-mail your Senator today and tell him or her to oppose any action that will jeopardize the estate tax.