<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> "Pare, John via NFB-Legislative-Directors" <<a href="mailto:nfb-legislative-directors@nfbnet.org">nfb-legislative-directors@nfbnet.org</a>><br><b>Date:</b> September 20, 2018 at 4:39:34 PM EDT<br><b>To:</b> State Presidents <<a href="mailto:StatePresidents@nfb.org">StatePresidents@nfb.org</a>>, NFB Legislative Directors List <<a href="mailto:nfb-legislative-directors@nfbnet.org">nfb-legislative-directors@nfbnet.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> "Pare, John" <<a href="mailto:JPare@nfb.org">JPare@nfb.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[NFB-Legislative-Directors] Marrakesh Update</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> NFB Legislative Directors List <<a href="mailto:nfb-legislative-directors@nfbnet.org">nfb-legislative-directors@nfbnet.org</a>><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Fellow Federationists:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We have good news. Representative Bob Goodlatte, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has discharged the Marrakesh Treaty Implementation Act from his committee and the plan is for the full House to vote on the bill next week. The
exact timing of the vote should be available late tomorrow (Friday) afternoon. Once this date is known, we will send out a legislative alert to all listservs urging members to call their representative. It is your hard work that has gotten us to this point,
but we can’t let up now. We are closer than we have ever been, and we are determined to see this through.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<br>
John<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">John Paré<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(410) 659-9314 x 2218<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">National Federation of the Blind<o:p></o:p></p>
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