[Nfb-idaho] FW: [NFB-Legislative-Directors] FW: [Nfbnet-members-list] NFB Legislative Alert

Sun Dec 4 03:04:54 UTC 2016

From: NFB-Legislative-Directors [mailto:nfb-legislative-directors-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Diggs, Parnell via NFB-Legislative-Directors
Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2016 12:31 PM
To: NFB Legislative Directors List <nfb-legislative-directors at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Diggs, Parnell <PDiggs at nfb.org>
Subject: [NFB-Legislative-Directors] FW: [Nfbnet-members-list] NFB Legislative Alert

Dear Legislative Directors,

I’m sure you saw this, but I wanted to send it around a second time because you are the legislative experts we can turn to for tasks like calling members of Congress.  Also, some of you have inquired whether we are holding a two-day legislative directors workshop in 2017.  No:  we are not having a two-day legislative directors workshop, but some of you will be here for the state presidents meeting.  For those of you who are not state presidents, please plan to travel directly to the Holiday Inn Capitol.  We will be conducting a two-hour seminar on Monday from 2:00 – 4:00 PM before the Great Gathering-in, and it is crucial that our legislative directors be in attendance.  Stay tuned for more details coming soon.

In the meantime, please review the below announcement and activate accordingly.  Thanks for all you do.

Parnell

From: NFBNet-Members-List [mailto:nfbnet-members-list-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Diggs, Parnell via NFBNet-Members-List
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 2:25 PM
To: nfbnet-members-list at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Nfbnet-members-list] NFB Legislative Alert

Dear Colleagues:

On this last day of November, I have the following matters to bring to your attention. First, please take a moment to call your House member this week and ask her or him to cosponsor the Accessible Instructional Materials in Higher Education (AIM HE) Act., H.R. 6122. AIM HE was introduced by Republican Phil Roe of Tennessee, and the lead cosponsor is Democrat Joe Courtney of Connecticut. You can reach the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121. From there, simply request to be connected with your Congressman. In addition to Tennessee and Connecticut, I want to thank our California and New York affiliates for securing cosponsors on AIM HE so far.

While on the phone, please also mention the TIME Act, H.R. 188. Below this message, I am listing the names of each House member and their state as acknowledgement to those affiliates which have secured cosponsors on the TIME Act during the 114th Congress. There are seventy-eight of them to date. Please thank your representative if she or he has cosponsored the TIME Act, or urge them to do so in addition to cosponsoring AIM HE. Your calls are important because it is crucial that we stay in contact with our legislators on a regular basis, moreover, while the 114th Congress is about to come to an end, gaining these cosponsors will help us get off to a quicker start in the next Congress.

Additional details about the Marrakesh Treaty and Space Available are forthcoming very soon, but suffice it to say that we are working on these items every day within the relevant House and Senate committees. Thus, we do not need phone calls on Marrakesh and Space Available at this time. I have one other item to discuss with you. Next week, we will be sending you template letters about requesting appointments with members of Congress for the Washington Seminar. Please be on the lookout for those items and related materials.

Exactly two months from today, we will be participating in the Great Gathering-in at the 2017 Washington Seminar. As President Riccobono observed in this week’s President’s Notebook, the Holiday Inn Capitol is accepting reservations now. Before December 28, please call (877) 572-6951, or go to https://nfb.org/washington-seminar where you can access the Holiday Inn Capitol page and make your reservations using booking code F7B. The rates are $188 for a room accommodating up to four persons, and the applicable tax is 14.5 percent. 

As you can see, we have much to do in the next sixty days or so.  In the meantime, if you celebrate the Holiday Season, I hope it is a good one for you and your loved ones, my Federation family.  

Warmly,
Parnell

TIME Act (H.R. 188) Cosponsors
Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]        
Calvert, Ken [R-CA-42]   
Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]             
Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-18]            
Lowenthal, Alan S. [D-CA-47]      
McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-9]           
Napolitano, Grace F. [D-CA-32]  
Roybal-Allard, Lucille [D-CA-40] 
Ruiz, Raul [D-CA-36]        
Speier, Jackie [D-CA-14]                
Swalwell, Eric [D-CA-15]                
Courtney, Joe [D-CT-2]
Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-12]
Castor, Kathy [D-FL-14]
Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]  
Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-20]         
Webster, Daniel [R-FL-10]            
Bishop, Sanford D., Jr. [D-GA-2]                
Bustos, Cheri [D-IL-17]   
Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7] 
Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL-8]        
Gutierrez, Luis V. [D-IL-4]             
Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5]    
Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]   
Visclosky, Peter J. [D-IN-1]          
Young, David [R-IA-3]     
Yarmuth, John A. [D-KY-3]           
Abraham, Ralph Lee [R-LA-5]      
Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]     
Edwards, Donna F. [D-MD-4]      
Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD-8]         
Clark, Katherine M. [D-MA-5]     
Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8]        
McGovern, James P. [D-MA-2]  
Moulton, Seth [D-MA-6]              
Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-1]            
Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-13]       
Lawrence, Brenda L. [D-MI-14]  
Miller, Candice S. [R-MI-10]         
Trott, David A. [R-MI-11]              
Upton, Fred [R-MI-6]     
Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]                
Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]           
Kuster, Ann M. [D-NH-2]              
Lujan Grisham, Michelle [D-NM-1]           
Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM-3]              
Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-16] 
Jeffries, Hakeem S. [D-NY-8]      
King, Peter T. [R-NY-2]   
Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-17]            
Maloney, Sean Patrick [D-NY-18]              
Rice, Kathleen M. [D-NY-4]          
Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-25]    
Tonko, Paul [D-NY-20]   
Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-7]    
Ellmers, Renee L. [R-NC-2]           
Price, David E. [D-NC-4] 
Fudge, Marcia L. [D-OH-11]         
Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]                
Cole, Tom [R-OK-4]         
Mullin, Markwayne [R-OK-2]      
Brady, Robert A. [D-PA-1]            
Fattah, Chaka [D-PA-2]  
Fitzpatrick, Michael G. [R-PA-8] 
Marino, Tom [R-PA-10] 
Pierluisi, Pedro R. [D-PR-At Large]            
Rice, Tom [R-SC-7]           
Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]        

Parnell Diggs, Esq.
Director of Government Affairs
200 East Wells Street, Baltimore, MD 21230
(410) 659-9314, extension 2222 | pdiggs at nfb.org <mailto:pdiggs at nfb.org>  
Twitter: ParnellDiggs

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