[Nfbmo] FW: Please Schedule District Meetings with your Senators Regarding Marrakesh Treaty and Space Available

[Gary Wunder]

Let us get ourselves some meetings during this recess.

 

 

 

From: Diggs, Parnell [mailto:PDiggs at nfb.org] 
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 11:20 AM
To: State Presidents; nfb-legislative-directors at nfbnet.org
Subject: Please Schedule District Meetings with your Senators Regarding Marrakesh Treaty and Space Available
Importance: High

 

Dear Affiliate Presidents and Legislative Directors:

 

We need to follow up on the work we began on March 9 (see email below). Over the next two weeks, the Senate will be in recess and members will be in their home districts presenting a prime opportunity to make more progress on our legislative priorities. Please schedule meetings with your senators to encourage them to cosponsor S. 2596 (the Senate companion bill to HR 2264), and call for its language to be included in the base National Defense Authorization Act. Also please encourage your senators to support the swift ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty by agreeing to provide their consent as quickly as possible.

 

We understand that not all affiliate members will be able to attend the in-person meetings, so please encourage those who cannot attend to call their Senators’ offices to make their voices heard. The Capitol Switchboard phone number is (202) 224-3121. Please circulate this message to your affiliate’s mailing list; we need everyone’s engagement to get these two things done during the second session of the 114th Congress.

 

Thank you for all you do,

 

Parnell Diggs, Esq.

Director

Government Affairs

National Federation of the Blind

 

From: Nfbnet-members-list [mailto:nfbnet-members-list-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Diggs, Parnell via Nfbnet-members-list
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2016 5:22 PM
To: nfbnet-members-list at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Nfbnet-members-list] NFB Legislative Alert

 


Dear Colleagues,

There are two matters pending in the Senate that require our attention this week. First, we need to engage members of the Senate to make the Marrakesh Treaty a top priority in 2016. Please call your Senators and urge them to support the ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty and help make more published works available to blind people.

Secondly, please urge your Senators to include the language of S. 2596 (our Space Available legislation in the Senate) in the base language of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

I am so thankful for the excellent work you do because no organization moves a legislative agenda like the National Federation of the Blind. Please call both of your Senators today! The number to the Capitol Switchboard is (202) 224-3121.

Thanks again for all you do to make sure blind Americans can live the lives we want.

Parnell

Parnell Diggs, Esq.
Director of Government Affairs
National Federation of the Blind
200 East Wells Street
Baltimore, MD 21230
Office: (410) 659-9314, extension 2222
Mobile: (843) 267-2018
Email: pdiggs at nfb.org
Twitter: @NFB_Voice
@ParnellDiggs

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