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<div>Dear Elizabeth:</div>
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<div>Thank you for checking in! The senators have not been doing any observable work on these two issues, which is exactly why we need to get them to work on these issues.</div>
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<div>All across the country, members of the national Federation of the blind been asking the same exact thing of senators in other states. Parnell Diggs put out the call to action nationally, and I repeated the call to action at the state level.</div>
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<div>We asked for everything to be done last week because of the Senate schedule for Monday and Tuesday. </div>
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<div>It is my hope that many of our members responded to Parnell's call to action or my repetition of it.</div>
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<div>Sincerely yours,</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Justin M. Salisbury, MA, NOMC, NCUEB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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On Mar 13, 2016, at 3:58 PM, Cookiechumper--- via Ct-nfb <<a href="mailto:ct-nfb@nfbnet.org">ct-nfb@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>Where are things standing as of now as it is great taht the senators are doing great work on this . Thanks for letting us know of that all of the great efforts of all included here. Elizabeth</div>
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<div>In a message dated 3/11/2016 2:09:18 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, <a href="mailto:ct-nfb@nfbnet.org">
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<div>Thanks so much, Jim and Deb! If anyone wants the names of the NDAA-focused staff members in each office, they are:</div>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature">For Senator Blumenthal's office:</div>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature">For Senator Murphy's office:</div>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature">Keep it up!<br>
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On Mar 11, 2016, at 12:47 PM, Jim McCollum <<a title="mailto:j.mccollum64@comcast.net" href="mailto:j.mccollum64@comcast.net">j.mccollum64@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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On Mar 11, 2016, at 10:58 AM, Justin Salisbury via Ct-nfb <<a title="mailto:ct-nfb@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:ct-nfb@nfbnet.org">ct-nfb@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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<span>2 things in the senate:<br>
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Secondly, please urge Senators Blumenthal & Murphy to include the language of S. 2596 (our Space Available legislation in the Senate) in the base language of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).</span></font></blockquote>
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I am so thankful for the excellent work we all do because no organization moves a legislative agenda like the National Federation of the Blind. Please call both Senators Blumenthal & Murphy today! The number to the Capitol Switchboard is (202) 224-3121.</span></font></blockquote>
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<span>If you get this after hours, you can still call the offices and leave voicemails. <br>
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Thanks again for working with me to make sure blind Americans can live the lives we want.<br>
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