[Mn-abs] Fw: Legislative Alert-Immediate Action Needed to Support The Higher education Textbook Commission

[Jennifer Dunnam]

BlankDear MN Federationists,

Please call your representative in Congress and ask him or her to sign on to Congressman Yarmuth's Dear Colleague letter supporting funding for the hommission to improve access to textbooks in higher education.  The details from Jesse Hartle are below, and the letter is only open until April 1. If your Representative wants to be added to this letter he or she should contact Lillian Pace in Congressman Yarmuth's office.  
This is something that the NFB worked hard on, and we want to see that it gets the funding to move forward.
Thank you.

Fellow Federationists:
 

It has come to my attention that Congressman Yarmuth of Kentucky has circulated a Dear Colleague letter in support of funding the Commission that will study ways to provide accessible textbooks to Blind students in higher education.  This Commission was created in the Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act and passed by Congress last year.  

 

It is urgent that we contact members of the House of Representatives and ask them to sign on to Congressman Yarmuth's Dear Colleague letter.  If funding is not provided in the Appropriations process, no work will be done to correct the problems that Blind students face in obtaining accessible textbooks.  

 

We worked very hard to get the language in the Higher Education legislation to solve this problem, and now we need to do our best to ensure funding is provided.  

 

Congressman Yarmuth is holding the letter open for cosigners through Wednesday, April 1.  Currently, only 6 members of the House have signed on to the letter and I have listed them below.  

 

If your Representative wants to be added to this letter he or she should contact Lillian Pace in Congressman Yarmuth's office.  You can be connected to your Representatives office by calling the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 225-3121.  

 

Please contact me with any questions.  I thank all of you for your hard work on this important issue.

 

Sincerely,

 

 

Jesse M. Hartle

Government Programs Specialist

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND

(410) 659-9314, extension 2233

E-mail:  jhartle at nfb.org

 

 

Cosigners of Dear Colleague Letter

Congressman Yarmuth

Congressman McDermott 

Congressman Conyers 

Congressman Hinojosa 

Congressman Bobby Scott 

Congressman Petri  

 



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