[NFBC-At-Large] Fwd: [NFBC-Info] Fwd: [Nfbnet-members-list] Legislative Alert 9/15/2021

[Carmen Weatherly]



Carmen M. Weatherly 909-486-2004                   cweatherly101 at gmail.com                                                            Yes can live the life you want!








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> From: Shannon Dillon via NFBC-Info <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org>
> Date: September 15, 2021 at 2:41:20 PM PDT
> To: NFB of California List <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Shannon Dillon <shannonldillon at gmail.com>
> Subject: [NFBC-Info] Fwd: [Nfbnet-members-list] Legislative Alert 9/15/2021
> Reply-To: NFB of California List <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org>
> 
> Hi everyone,
> Great news. Please see the email from John Pare below. The Access
> Technology Affordability Act has made its way into the House of
> Representatives reconciliation package, and he's asking us to ask our
> senators to cosponsor it if they have not done so already. Both of our
> senators are cosponsored, so we do not need to ask them to cosponsor.
> Please see John Pare's message below for more information.
> Shannon
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Pare, John via NFBNet-Members-List" <nfbnet-members-list at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 19:42:24 +0000
> Subject: [Nfbnet-members-list] Legislative Alert 9/15/2021
> To: "nfbnet-members-list at nfbnet.org" <nfbnet-members-list at nfbnet.org>
> 
> Dear Federation Family:
> 
> Congratulations, our hard work has paid off. The provisions of the
> Access Technology Affordability Act have been included in the
> reconciliation package currently moving through the House of
> Representatives. We will keep you apprised of this activity.
> 
> In the meantime, we need to move quickly to build cosponsor support
> for the Access Technology Affordability Act in the Senate. We
> currently have 24 Senate cosponsors but if we can dramatically
> increase this number over the next week or two, it would greatly
> improve our chances of this bill being included in the Senate version
> of the reconciliation package.
> 
> Senator Cardin is the sponsor of the bill. The other 24 Senate
> cosponsors are listed below. If one or both of your senators has not
> yet cosponsored the Access Technology Affordability Act (S. 212) then
> I urge you to call or email them and urge them to please cosponsor
> this important legislation.
> 
> When you call or email, you might say the following:
> 
> "Hello, my name is [YOUR NAME], and I live in [CITY, STATE]. I would
> like to urge [SENATOR NAME] to cosponsor the Access Technology
> Affordability Act, S. 212. This legislation removes an employment
> barrier commonly experienced by blind Americans who cannot afford the
> high cost of access technology by creating a refundable tax credit in
> the amount of $2,000 to offset the cost of this technology.
> 
> Thanks."
> 
> You can contact your member of Congress by calling the Capitol
> Switchboard and asking for the office in question. The number is
> 202-224-3121. If you email your senators, please copy Jeff Kaloc at
> jkaloc at nfb.org<mailto:jkaloc at nfb.org>. Your calls and emails do make a
> difference.
> 
> It is best to call or email the relevant staff person in your
> senator's office. For your convenience, we have attached a list of
> relevant staffers in the Senate offices that have not cosponsored the
> Access Technology Affordability Act (S. 212). If you do not see your
> member of Congress, please email Jeff and he will do further research.
> 
> The list of current cosponsors is pasted below.
> 
> Thank you for all that you do,
> 
> John
> 
> S. 212 Cosponsors
> Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
> Sen. Boozman, John [R-AR]
> Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
> Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA]
> Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL]
> Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN]
> Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
> Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD]
> Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]
> Sen. Blunt, Roy [R-MO]
> Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
> Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV]
> Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
> Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
> Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
> Sen. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND]
> Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
> Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
> Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
> Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
> Sen. Leahy, Patrick [D-VT]
> Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
> Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
> Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV]
> 
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> -- 
> SHANNON L. DILLON
> Secretary and Legislative Coordinator
> National Federation of the Blind
> of California
> www.nfbcal.org
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