[Nfbnet-members-list] Legislative Alert 9/15/2021

[Pare, John]

Dear Federation Family:

Congratulations, our hard work has paid off. The provisions of the Access Technology Affordability Act have been included in the reconciliation package currently moving through the House of Representatives. We will keep you apprised of this activity.

In the meantime, we need to move quickly to build cosponsor support for the Access Technology Affordability Act in the Senate. We currently have 24 Senate cosponsors but if we can dramatically increase this number over the next week or two, it would greatly improve our chances of this bill being included in the Senate version of the reconciliation package.

Senator Cardin is the sponsor of the bill. The other 24 Senate cosponsors are listed below. If one or both of your senators has not yet cosponsored the Access Technology Affordability Act (S. 212) then I urge you to call or email them and urge them to please cosponsor this important legislation.

When you call or email, you might say the following:

"Hello, my name is [YOUR NAME], and I live in [CITY, STATE]. I would like to urge [SENATOR NAME] to cosponsor the Access Technology Affordability Act, S. 212. This legislation removes an employment barrier commonly experienced by blind Americans who cannot afford the high cost of access technology by creating a refundable tax credit in the amount of $2,000 to offset the cost of this technology.

Thanks."

You can contact your member of Congress by calling the Capitol Switchboard and asking for the office in question. The number is 202-224-3121. If you email your senators, please copy Jeff Kaloc at jkaloc at nfb.org<mailto:jkaloc at nfb.org>. Your calls and emails do make a difference.

It is best to call or email the relevant staff person in your senator's office. For your convenience, we have attached a list of relevant staffers in the Senate offices that have not cosponsored the Access Technology Affordability Act (S. 212). If you do not see your member of Congress, please email Jeff and he will do further research.

The list of current cosponsors is pasted below.

Thank you for all that you do,

John

S. 212 Cosponsors
Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Sen. Boozman, John [R-AR]
Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA]
Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL]
Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN]
Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD]
Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]
Sen. Blunt, Roy [R-MO]
Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV]
Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
Sen. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND]
Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Sen. Leahy, Patrick [D-VT]
Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV]

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