[nFBMI-Talk] FW: [Nfbnet-members-list] Legislative Alert - Washington Seminar - February 7, 2018

[Michael Powell]

Greetings to all federationists and friends.

Below is some information on the success of our Washington Seminar.  There is  also a legislative alert requiring action due for next week if we are to defeat the attack on the ADA if HR620 becomes law.   

Read this information and call your representative in congress.  If they are in support of our efforts to defeat this bill thank them and ask them to talk to their colleagues to get this bill defeated.

Thanks

Michael Powell

President

National Federation of the Blind of Michigan

 

from: NFBNet-Members-List [mailto:nfbnet-members-list-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Pare, John via NFBNet-Members-List
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2018 4:50 PM
To: nfbnet-members-list at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Nfbnet-members-list] Legislative Alert - Washington Seminar - February 7, 2018

 

Dear Fellow Federationists:

 

We had a terrific Washington Seminar last week! You have generated sixteen new cosponsors on Aim High in the House and two in the Senate. With respect to the Access Technology Affordability Act, you have generated twenty-two new cosponsors in the House and one in the Senate. This is a record number of cosponsors on our legislation resulting from your advocacy during Washington Seminar. Your professionalism, persuasion, and persistence is clearly paying off. 

 

H.R. 620, the ADA Education and Reform Act, is now scheduled for a floor vote in the House of Representatives next week, probably Wednesday or Thursday. Please plan to call your representative beginning Monday and urge them to oppose this bill. You can contact your representative by calling the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and asking for the office in question. We will be sending additional information on this call to action later this week.

 

Let’s defeat H.R 620 and then get back to getting our other bills through Congress!

 

Warm regards,

 

John

 

 

John G. Paré Jr. 

Executive Director for Advocacy and Policy

200 East Wells Street, Baltimore, MD 21230

(410) 659-9314, extension 2218 | Jpare at nfb.org

 

 

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