<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dear NFBMA family,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">It is time for us to ramp up our advocacy on one of our most important federal legislative priorities:  the Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act (TCIEA), which would end the practice of paying subminimum wages to workers with disabilities. Together, we need to try to </span><span style="font-size:11pt">ensure</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> that the Transformation to Competitive
Integrated Employment Act is included in the Workforce Innovation and
Opportunity Act (WIOA) reauthorization bill that is currently being considered.</span></p>

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now is a crucial time for this initiative because Congress wants to pass the
WIOA reauthorization when they return after Thanksgiving. We all need to flood
the email inboxes and telephone lines and voicemail boxes of four key committee
staff members in the next few days before Thanksgiving in order to make sure TCIEA gets included in the final bill:</span></p>

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Jones</span></p>

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Staff Director, House Committee on Education and the Workforce</span></p>

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Pluviose-Fenton</span></p>

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Staff Director, House Committee on Education and the Workforce</span></p>

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Gunnels</span></p>

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Staff Director, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions</span></p>

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Lincoln</span></p>

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Staff Director, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions</span></p>

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you call or email, you might say something like:</span></p>

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[NAME]:</span></p>

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urging the [HOUSE EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE COMMITTEE/SENATE HELP COMMITTEE] to
please include the TCIEA in the WIOA reauthorization bill. The TCIEA will
eliminate the payment of subminimum wages for people with disabilities and
eliminate the need for a government program to monitor special wage certificate
holders. Thank you.”</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">If you
send an email, please use the subject line “Please Include the TCIEA in the
WIOA Reauthorization” and copy me at <a href="mailto:kyra.sweeney94@gmail.com" style="color:blue">kyra.sweeney94@gmail.com</a>
and Justin Young at <a href="mailto:jyoung@nfb.org" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">jyoung@nfb.org</span></a></span></p>

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is working diligently to move the WIOA reauthorization bill as soon as they get
back after the Thanksgiving break, so time is of the essence for us to make our
voices heard!!! If you have any questions, please contact me.</span></p>

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you for all that you do,</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Kyra Sweeney</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Legislative Director, National Federation of the Blind of Massachusetts</p></div>