body {
	background: #FFF;
	font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
}
p, b, i, li, td, h1, h2, h3, h5, h6 {
	font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	padding: 0px 0px 0px 3px;
}

h1, h2, h3, h4 {

	margin:0;
	color:#030;
}
h1 {
	/* padding: 20px 10px 5px 5px; */
	font-size: 18px;

}
h2 {
	/* padding: 20px 10px 0px 0px; */
	font-size: 17px;
	font-style:bold;
}
h3 {
	font-size: 12px;
	color:#000000;
	font-style:bold;
	text-transform:uppercase;
}

p {
}

i {
	font-size: 12px;
	color:#336600;
	font-style:normal;
	background:ffcc66;
}

.hr1 {	
	height:1px; 
	width:120px; 
	color: #FFF;
	background-color:#FFF;
	margin:15px 5px 10px 10px;
 }
 /* border for images */
.whiteBorder {
	border: 2px #FFF solid;
}

/* <font color="#FFFFFF" size="6" face="Trebuchet MS,Verdana"><b> */
/* top center & right header area */

#bannerarea p {
	font-size:12px;
	color:#000;
}

#bannerarea a:link, #bannerarea a:visited{
	font-size:10px;
	font-weight: bold;
	text-decoration: underline;
	color:CC6600;
}

#bannerarea a.bannerarea:hover {
	text-decoration:none;
}
#bannerarea h1 {
	font-size:24px;
	color:#FFF;
	margin:0px;
	font-style:bold;
	font-family:Trebuchet MS,Verdana;
}

#bannerarea h2 {
	font-size:18px;
	color:#000000;
	margin:0px;
	font-style:bold;
	font-family:Trebuchet MS,Verdana;
}
#bannerarea h4 {
	font-size:10px;
	color:#000000;
	margin:0px;
	font-style:bold;
	font-family:Verdana,Arial;
}
#bannerarea b {
	font-size:10px;
	color:#000000;
	font-family:Verdana,Arial;
	text-decoration:none;
	font-style:normal;
}


/* left hand content block containing a list of different Take Action content */
#actionBlock, #actionBlock form {
	font-size:10px;
	color:#FFF;
	width:140px;
}
#actionBlock form {
	padding:0px;
	margin:0px;
}
#actionBlock h3 {
	font-size:10px;
	text-transform:uppercase;
	color:#FFF;
	padding:10px 5px 0px 10px;
	margin:0px;
	font-style:normal;
}
#actionBlock p {
	font-size:10px;
	color:#FFF;
	padding:0px 5px 0px 10px;
	margin:0px;
}
a.actionBlock:link, a.actionBlock:visited, a.actionBlock:active {
	color:#c6dc37;
	font-size:10px;
	font-weight:bold;
	text-decoration:underline;
	border-bottom :1px dotted;	
}
a.actionBlock:hover {
	text-decoration:underline;
	border-bottom :0px dotted;		
}
/* site nav */
#nav {
	background-color:#000000;
	width:100%;

}
#nav p {
	padding:10px;
	color:#FFF;
	font-size:11px;	text-transform:uppercase;
}
#nav a:link, #nav a:visited {
	color:#FFF;
	font-size:11px;
	font-weight: bold;
	text-decoration:none;
}
/* site nav with "you are here" indicator */
/* to make this work on new pages give the body tag of the new page an id="page_name" and add that "page_name" to the list below */
body#home #btn_home, 
body#about #btn_about, 
body#issues #btn_issues, 
body#youcan #btn_youcan, 
body#news #btn_news, 
body#resources #btn_resources,
#nav a:hover { 
	color:#F8C62F;
} 


/* content areas */
#midcontent {
	border-right:2px dotted #FFF; 
	height:320px;
	width:425px;
	padding:0px 8px 15px 10px;
}
#midcontent_home {
	border-right:2px dotted #FFF; 
	height:320px;
	width:600px;
}

#midcontent a:hover {
	border-bottom :1px dotted;
}

#rightcontent {
	color: #FFFFFF;
	background-color:#6F830F;
	padding:0 8px;
	width:250px;
}
#rightcontent a:link, #rightcontent a:visited{
	color:#c6dc37;
	font-size:11px;
	font-weight: bold;
	text-decoration:underline;
}

#rightcontent a:hover {
	text-decoration:none;
	border-bottom :1px dotted;
}
 
#footercontent {
	border-top:2px solid #FFF;
	background-color:#EAEFD7;
	padding:4px;
}
#latestnews a:link, #latestnews a:visited{
	color:#245506;
	font-size:11px;
	font-weight: bold;
	text-decoration: underline;
}

#latestnews a:hover {
	text-decoration:none;
	border-bottom :1px dotted;
}

/*links*/
a:link, a:visited {
	color:#C60;
	font-size:12px;
	font-weight:bold;
	text-decoration:underline;
}
a:hover {
	color:#669900;
	font-weight:bold;
	text-decoration:underline;
	border-bottom :0px dotted;
}
a:active {
	color:#C60;
	font-size:12px;
	font-weight:bold;
	text-decoration:none;
}.blurbtitle {
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 16px;
	font-style: normal;
	font-weight: bold;
	color: #000000;
}