[IL-Talk] Please Call or write your Representative about H.R. 431/S212

[davant1958 at gmail.com]

Hello all:

 

We are making great progress building cosponsor support for the Access
Technology Affordability Act in both the House and the Senate. We are up to
66 cosponsors on H.R. 431 and 13 on S. 212. The following Illinois
Congressional representatives have co-sponsored H.R. 431: 

Rep. Bost, Mike [R-IL-12]              

Rep. Davis, Rodney [R-IL-13]       

Rep. Garcia, Jesus G. "Chuy" [D-IL-4]        

Rep. Krishnamoorthi, Raja [D-IL-8]            

Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1]        

Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]          

Rep. Schneider, Bradley Scott [D-IL-10]   

Rep. Underwood, Lauren [D-IL-14]           

 

If your representative is not listed, please help us add them to our list of
Illinois co-sponsors. We are hoping this bill will be included in one of the
upcoming large legislative packages. The more cosponsors we have the more
likely this is to occur.

 

Both the House and Senate will be in recess the week of March 29 and the
week of April 5; however, the staff is still in Washington, DC. Let's work
especially hard to get as many cosponsors as possible before Congress comes
back in session the week of April 12.

 

When you call or email, you might say the following:

 

"Hello, my name is [YOUR NAME], and I am a constituent of
[REPRESENTATIVE/SENATOR NAME]. I live in [CITY, STATE]. I would like to urge
[REPRESENTATIVE/SENATOR NAME] to cosponsor the Access Technology
Affordability Act [H.R. 431 in the House/S. 212 in the Senate]. This
legislation removes an employment barrier commonly experienced by blind
Americans who cannot afford the high cost of access technology by creating a
refundable tax credit in the amount of $2,000 to offset the cost of this
technology.

 

Thanks."

To locate your representative, please reach out to me (davant1958 at gmail.com
<mailto:davant1958 at gmail.com>  or 773-991-8050) or Dustin Cather
(cather.dustin at gmail.com <mailto:cather.dustin at gmail.com>  or 309-267-7670).
If you choose to email, please email Dustin and I at the above email
addresses.

Thank you for all you do.

 

 

 

Denise Avant, ESQ

1st Vice President

National Federation of the Blind of Illinois

For more information about NFBI,

Go to www.nfbofillinois.org