<div dir="ltr"><div><font size="2">Greetings Everyone,</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">We need your help during this busy season to make progress on eliminating the subminimum wage for persons with disabilities. Please contact Senator Chris Van Hollen and Senator Ben Cardin as well as your individual congressman in the House. Remind Senator Van Hollen that he co-sponsored this legislation in the past. Read President Riccobono's note below. Thank you.<br></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in;line-height:115%"><font size="2"><span><span><span><b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br></span></b></span></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in;line-height:115%"><font size="2"><span><span><span><b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Transformation

 to Competitive Integrated Employment Act Introduced in US Senate:</span></b></span></span></span><span><span><span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></b></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2">

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<font size="2"><span><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">On Thursday, November 18, Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Steve Daines

 (R-MT) </span></span></span></span><a href="https://nfb.org/about-us/press-room/national-federation-blind-applauds-introduction-transformation-competitive-0" target="_blank"><span><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">introduced

 the Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act in the Senate</span></span></span></span><span><span><span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">

 (S. 3238). Sheila Leigland, an active NFB member from Montana and a constituent of Senator Daines, is featured in a

</span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.daines.senate.gov/news/videos/watch/sen-daines-bipartisan-bill-is-a-game-changer-for-disabled-community" target="_blank"><span><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">video

 promoting the legislation on Senator </span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:none">Daines’s</span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">

official Senate website</a><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.

 Please contact your senators and urge them to cosponsor S. 3238, and 

contact your representative to urge them to cosponsor the House 

companion, H.R. 2373.</span></span></span></span></font></p>

<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font size="2">Sharon Maneki, Director of Legislation and Advocacy</font></b></div><div><font size="2">National Federation of the Blind of Maryland</font></div><div><font size="2">410-715-9596</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">The National Federation of the Blind of Maryland knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Everyday we raise the expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back.<br></font></div><div><b><font size="2"></font></b></div><div><b><font size="2"><br></font></b></div></div></div></div></div>