[il-talk] NFB Washington Seminar 2014

[denise avant]

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> On Jan 30, 2014, at 3:29 PM, Syed Yousufuddin <syedy2003 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Denise,
> The affiliate president here in Tennessee has appointed me as the legislative director beginning this year...and got success right away. Got a call from my Congressman's office saying that the Congressman has signed on to our fair wages bill. I intend to pick up from where I left in Illinois.
> "Leadership is action. Not position."
> Hope this will find you all in good spirits.
> Cheers
> Syed
> 
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>> On Jan 30, 2014, at 2:05 PM, "denise avant" <dravant at ameritech.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello federation family,
>> another Washington seminar has come to a close.it was a privilege to travel with 8 other federationist from Illinois to talk to our legislators about the issues concerning blind people. The work is not done. for in the coming weeks, we will all be asked to follow up  with our house members and two senators by e-mailing calling, and visiting them to discuss these issues.
>> the three issues are: (1) HR 831 Fair Wages For Workers With Disabilities, design to phase out Section 14c of the Fair Labor Standards Act, allowing for the payment of subminimum wages to disabled workers, (2)  HR 3505 Technology Education And Accessibility in College and Higher Education, designed to provide  guidelines to colleges and universities on how to make all their course materials to blind students and (3) S556, Air Carrier Accessibility Technology Act, which is designed among other things to make accessible mobile apps and the touch screen on aircraft so that you can buy things when flying. As far as  I know, none of the legislators committed to voting one way or the other on these bills. However, with varying levels of enthusiasm, the staffers promised to communicate to our representatives the information we imparted to them. We promised that we would follow  up when we came back home. Nine of us went to Washington seminar, but many more of us can actively press these issues to our legislators, and gain their support. We can enlist our friends and family to do the same.  To read the fact sheets on these issues, you can go to Newsline or the NFB.ORG website.
>> 
>> p.S.
>> We should all be so proud of Rose Sloan. She knows her job, and does it with enthusiasm. And because of her, some of us got our picture taken with Rep. Jan. Schakowsky.
>> Rep. John Shimkus was going to meet with us personally, but could not because of a house vote. However, he took the time to stop and shake hands on the way to the House.
>> 
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