[IL-Talk] Federal Legislation alert-Transformation to Competitive Employment Act

Tue Sep 17 14:39:57 UTC 2019

I will contact them again. I am not a quitter. I don’t know what the problem could be!

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> On 17 Sep 2019, at 8:12 AM, Marilyn Green via IL-Talk <il-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Greetings fellow federationists,
> 
> Illinois has two co-sponsors for HR 873, Transformation to Competitive Employment Act, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia and Jan Schakowsky but if we want to permanently eliminate subminimum wages for people with disabilities we need to gain more co-sponsors. Please take the time this week to reach out to your member of Congress either via e-mail or phone to ask them to support our initiative to permanently sunset section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
> 
> You can say something like the following:
> 
> "Hello, my name is [your name] and I am a constituent of [your representative]. I live in [city, state]. I am calling to urge [your representative] to cosponsor H.R. 873, the Transformation to Competitive Employment Act. This legislation phases out Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act over a six-year period, at which point the provision would officially be sunset.
> Thanks."
> 
> Please reach out to me for the e-mail address for your U.S. Representative or call the Capitol switchboard and ask for your Representative's office, 202-224-3121.
> 
> Thanks for all that you do.
> 
> Marilyn
> 
> 
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