<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Good Morning!</div><div>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! </div><div>Cathy</div><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><div>stoping the passage of Senate Bill 1356!</div><div>Cathy</div><div><br></div><div> <br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> "Pamela" <<a href="mailto:pam.glisson@insightbb.com">pam.glisson@insightbb.com</a>><br><b>Date:</b> July 28, 2013, 8:47:17 PM EDT<br><b>To:</b> "NFB of Kentucky Internet Mailing List" <<a href="mailto:nfbk@nfbnet.org">nfbk@nfbnet.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> 'S radford' <<a href="mailto:sradford@independenceplaceky.org">sradford@independenceplaceky.org</a>>, Orissa Mason <<a href="mailto:omason@independenceplaceky.org">omason@independenceplaceky.org</a>>, Sara Faulkner <<a href="mailto:sfaulkner@independenceplaceky.org">sfaulkner@independenceplaceky.org</a>>, John Glisson <<a href="mailto:jglisson@independenceplaceky.org">jglisson@independenceplaceky.org</a>>, <a href="mailto:pturner@independenceplaceky.org">pturner@independenceplaceky.org</a>, "Lexington, Kentucky Chapter List" <<a href="mailto:nfbk-lexington@nfbnet.org">nfbk-lexington@nfbnet.org</a>>, Serena Thornsberry <<a href="mailto:sthornsberry@independenceplaceky.org">sthornsberry@independenceplaceky.org</a>>, <a href="mailto:mjsmith@independenceplaceky.org">mjsmith@independenceplaceky.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[Nfbk] Call To Action</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> NFB of Kentucky Internet Mailing List <<a href="mailto:nfbk@nfbnet.org">nfbk@nfbnet.org</a>><br><br></div></blockquote><div><span></span></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0.25in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Elephant; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Call
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0.25in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">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. </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; BACKGROUND: white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">(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. </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; BACKGROUND: white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">(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. </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0.25in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">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.<a name="_GoBack"></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0.25in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Elephant; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Talking
Points: </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Elephant; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0.25in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I am a voting
constituent in Kentucky and I am respectfully requesting that the WIA
reauthorization be amended to:</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; BACKGROUND: white" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">(1)</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Remove Section 511 of the Rehabilitation
Act.</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; BACKGROUND: white" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">(2) Remove the
language transferring RSA to the Department of Labor.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Sen. Rand Paul
(R-KY)</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">(202)
224-4343</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Chief of Staff:
William Henderson </span><a href="mailto:william_henderson@paul.senate.gov" target="_blank"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #1155cc; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">william_henderson@paul.senate.gov</span></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">HELP Contact:
Natalie Burkhalter </span><a href="mailto:natalie_burkhalter@paul.senate.gov" target="_blank"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #1155cc; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">natalie_burkhalter@paul.senate.gov</span></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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