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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>Hello Federationists,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Washington Seminar is coming soon. If you plan to attend or even if you just want to help from home, Please attend this training, tomorrow. Tuesday, December 20 at8P.M. Also, if you haven’t let me know whether or not you would like to attend, please do so immediately. If you are not sure if you told me, please tell me again and confirm with either a call, text or an email. If I do not respond to you within 24 hours, I didn’t get your message. The 2023 Washington Seminar will be in person. Some of our meetings at the hotel will be streamed. Links will be sent as soon as they are available. We will need everyone here at home to help with follow-up emails and phone calls to our Senators and Representatives. We want everyone to be familiar with our issues so I am including the Zoom information for the first training session. It will be tomorrow, December 20, at 8 PM. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Since this will be a new session of Congress all current bills that we want to continue with will need to be reintroduced and will have new bill numbers. Remember that we follow and work on more bills than the ones we focus on for Washington Seminar. Our three issues for the seminar week are:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act Medical Device Nonvisual Accessibility Act Eliminating the SSDI Earnings Cliff<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Please attend the training session to learn more details. 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