[Nfbk] Fwd: Call To Action

[Cathy Jackson]

Good Morning!
I want to thank all if you who made calls to Senator Paul's office yesterday. It you didn't get a chance to make the call it isn't too late. I encourage you to step up and make your voice heard! These changes will effect our Kentucky OFfice for the Blind. There has absolutely been no study done to indicate these proposed changes are a good thing. NFB is not the only membership organization or rehab agency that apposes these flawed ideas. Pamela Glisson has done a super job of condensing the legislation to an easier document to understand, so I have simply forwarded it. Rand Paul's DC number is 202-224-4343. His Bowling Green office cam be contacted at 270-782-8303. We are calling both offices. If you prefer emailing you may, although phone calls prove to get their attention. it's harder to hang up on a constituent  than it is to hit the delete key. Some of us are calling and emailing. our goal is to be a real pain. Thanks for your help in stopping the passage of SB 1356! 
Cathy


stoping the passage of Senate Bill 1356!
Cathy

 

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> From: "Pamela" <pam.glisson at insightbb.com>
> Date: July 28, 2013, 8:47:17 PM EDT
> To: "NFB of Kentucky Internet Mailing List" <nfbk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: 'S radford' <sradford at independenceplaceky.org>, Orissa Mason <omason at independenceplaceky.org>, Sara Faulkner <sfaulkner at independenceplaceky.org>, John Glisson <jglisson at independenceplaceky.org>, pturner at independenceplaceky.org, "Lexington, Kentucky Chapter List" <nfbk-lexington at nfbnet.org>, Serena Thornsberry <sthornsberry at independenceplaceky.org>, mjsmith at independenceplaceky.org
> Subject: [Nfbk] Call To Action
> Reply-To: NFB of Kentucky Internet Mailing List <nfbk at nfbnet.org>
> 
> Greetings!
> If you have any questions, please contact me.
>  
> Pamela
>  
> Call to Action!
>  
>  
> This is a call to action for you to make phone calls, send e-mails, and post to social media to save rehabilitation services for people with disabilities on Monday, July 29 and Tuesday, July 30.  Senate Bill S. 1356 has been introduced to reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act (WIA).  This bill includes two major policy changes in the language of the Rehabilitation Act that threaten to send us backwards in our struggle to acquire the proper education, training, and opportunity to obtain competitive, integrated employment. 
>  
> (1) The bill has proposed language in Section 511 of the Rehabilitation Act that requires vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies to include training and employment at wages below the federal minimum wage as a VR service. 
>  
> (1) The bill proposes to transfer the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) from the Department of Education to the Department of Labor, severing the essential link between the provision of quality education and rehabilitation services for people with disabilities. 
>  
> The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee is scheduled to discuss and vote on this bill on Wednesday, July 31, and we need to act to ensure that these two tremendously flawed proposals are removed.  Our initial action is simple,  but it will require all of us to take action.  We need everyone and family members, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances that reside in Kentucky where Senator Rand Paul serves on the HELP committee to make calls, send e-mails, post tweets, and Facebook messages to communicate the following two straightforward requests to him.
>  
> Talking Points:
>  
> I am a voting constituent in Kentucky and I am respectfully requesting that the WIA reauthorization be amended to:
>  
> (1) Remove Section 511 of the Rehabilitation Act.
> (2) Remove the language transferring RSA to the Department of Labor.
>  
>  
> Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)
> (202) 224-4343
> Chief of Staff: William Henderson william_henderson at paul.senate.gov
> HELP Contact: Natalie Burkhalter natalie_burkhalter at paul.senate.gov
>  
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