[Nfbmo] Washington Seminar surprise

[Brian Wekamp]

Hello Dan:

Wonderful news;  Thank you all who went to Washington D.c. and saw our 
Legislators.
Remember   the Jefferson City seminar is in just a couple weeks on Feb 21 
and 22.


Brian Wekamp


-----Original Message----- 
From: DanFlasar at aol.com
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 10:50 AM
To: nfbmo at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Nfbmo] Washington Seminar surprise

Hi folks,
   This is a quick note from DC to tell y'all that this  years Washington
Seminar has now concluded with the NFB of Missouri bringing in  a big boost
to the chances of passage of one of our  initiatives.    We were all
disappointed initially to learn that  the new House rules specify that the 
House
will be in session 3 out of every 4  weeks, the other week to be spent in 
the
home district.  A very good thing  for greater access to our Congressfolk 
but
in this case, they were home and we  were in DC to meet with them.  We met
with the staff of all of our 9  representatives and two Senators and
presented their legislative aides with our  information packets along with 
time to
present our 2011 agenda and get their  thoughts on which bills they would or
would not support as well as ideas on how  best to move our goals through
the process.
    We had the good luck to meet with our  newly-elected Senator, Roy Blunt
who sat down with our team f - to provide  them with  the details of our
proposed  legislation.   We felt that the Senator was favorably disposed to
our  Technology Bill of Rights but had no sense of where he might be on any 
of
the  other initiatives.   Imagine our surprise when at the 6 pm
get-together yesterday
we learned that the NFB Governmental Affairs  leadership had just
receivedan email from Sen.Blunt's legislative aide,  Jack Smedile, informing 
us that
Sen. Blunt wants to be the Republican prime  spnonsorof the Americans with
Disabilities Business Opportunity Act!    Since  the NFB prefers to have
bipartisan prime spnonsors, it's great that  our junior senator has taken 
the
lead so early.   Sen Blunt will be  reviewing the language of the bill once
it is available to put his final okay on  the deal but the fact that he
isphilosophically favorable to the intent and  spirit of our proposed 
legislation
is a very good development.
   A fuller report will come later but we wanted our  fellow Missourians
to know about this exciting news.

Sincerely,

Dan Flasar
Co-ordinator, Washington Seminar
Missouri affiliate
National Federaton ofo the Blind of Missouri
_danflasar at aol.com_ (mailto:danflasar at aol.com)

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