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<DIV>yes, we can and will make a difference when our voices are heard.</DIV>
<DIV>Please read all information provided below.</DIV>
<DIV>Make the calls, write an email to provide the information to your
representative/s.</DIV>
<DIV>If emailing, please copy John Pare at <A
href="mailto:jpare@nfb.org">jpare@nfb.org</A></DIV>
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<DIV>I have provided two email messages.</DIV>
<DIV>The first, from Kimie Beverly is to the point, the second, from John
Pare, has some background information to provide if needed.</DIV>
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<DIV>Call the Capitol switchboard at </DIV>
<DIV>202 224 3121</DIV>
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<DIV>I have provided contact information for Senator Booker and Senator
Menendez. </DIV>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Senator Cory
Booker</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">US Senator, New
Jersey</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">359
Dirksen</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN
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Building</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Washington, DC
20510</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Phone: 202 224
3224</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Kimberly Miller-Tolbert,
legislative staffer</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="name: ole_link4"></A><A style="name: ole_link3"><SPAN
style="mso-bookmark: ole_link4"><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Email:
</FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></A><A
style='href: "mailto:Kimberly_Miller-Tolbert@booker.senate.gov"'
href="mailto:Kimberly_Miller-Tolbert@booker.senate.gov"><SPAN
style="mso-bookmark: ole_link3"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: ole_link4"><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"
color=#0563c1>Kimberly_Miller-Tolbert@booker.senate.gov</FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-bookmark: ole_link3"><SPAN
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Senator Robert
Menendez</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">US Senate, New
Jersey</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">528 Hart
Building</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Washington, DC
20510</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Phone: 202 224
4744</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><A
style="name: ole_link8"></A><A style="name: ole_link7"></A><SPAN
style="mso-bookmark: ole_link8"><B><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt" color=#1661aa>Steve
Lieberman, Legislative Correspondent</FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></SPAN><B><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'></SPAN></B></P>
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style="name: ole_link6"></A><A style="name: ole_link5"><SPAN
style="mso-bookmark: ole_link6"><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Email:
</FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></A><A
style='href: "mailto:Stephen_Lieberman@Menendez.Senate.Gov"'
href="mailto:Stephen_Lieberman@Menendez.Senate.Gov"><SPAN
style="mso-bookmark: ole_link5"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: ole_link6"><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"
color=#0563c1>Stephen_Lieberman@Menendez.Senate.Gov</FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-bookmark: ole_link5"><SPAN
style="mso-bookmark: ole_link6"></SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN
style="mso-bookmark: ole_link5"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: ole_link6"><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P><SPAN
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Don’t wait for someone else
to make the calls and to write the emails, we need all to make the calls and to
write the emails.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman">We can make a difference!</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>We care. We
share. We grow. We make a difference<BR>Joe Ruffalo, President <BR>National
Federation of the Blind of New Jersey <BR>973 743
0075<BR>nfbnj1@verizon.net<BR><A
href="http://www.nfbnj.org">www.nfbnj.org</A></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<DIV><A href="http://www.nfbnj.org">www.nfbnj.org</A></DIV>
<DIV>Your old car keys can be keys to literacy for the blind.<BR>Donate your
unwanted vehicle to us by clicking <BR>www.carshelpingtheblind.org <BR>or call
855 659 9314<BR></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Good Morning Joe:</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Tax
is back and moving quickly through the Senate. Can you please ask your members
to call Senate Finance Committee member <B><U>Robert Menendez’s </U></B>office
and ask for 2 things related to tax reform:</FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></FONT> </P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2"><SPAN
style="mso-list: ignore"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">1.</FONT><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt">
</FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Please keep the
additional standard deduction for the blind as stated in the Finance committee
bill. </FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></FONT> </P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2"><SPAN
style="mso-list: ignore"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">2.</FONT><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt">
</FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Please offer an
amendment to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act providing for the Access Technology
Affordability Act (S. 732). </FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoListParagraph style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in">In addition, please
call Senator Cory Booker.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Thank you so much!</FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Kimie Beverly</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Government Affairs Specialist</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">200
East Wells Street, Baltimore, MD 21230</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">(410) 659-9314, extension 2441 |</FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> </FONT><A
style='href: "mailto:kbeverly@nfb.org"'><SPAN style="COLOR: "><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" color=#000000>kbeverly@nfb.org</FONT></SPAN></A></P>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>Second email message:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>From: John Pare </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Legislative Alert - November 10, 2017</DIV></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #f5f5f5" size=2 face=Tahoma></FONT><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #f5f5f5" size=2 face=Tahoma></FONT><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #f5f5f5" size=2 face=Tahoma></FONT>Dear Fellow
Federationists: <BR>The House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means,
favorably reported the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act out of committee on Thursday,
November 9. The bill now goes to the House floor. Please continue to call your
representative and urge him or her to demand that the additional standard
deduction for blind people be restored.<BR>A summary of the Senate companion
bill, also called the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, was released on Thursday, November
9. The Senate bill does not eliminate the additional standard deduction for the
blind. This is extremely good news!<BR>Please call your two senators and urge
them to continue to maintain the additional standard deduction for the blind.
Please also ask them to vote for any amendment which incorporates the Access
Technology Affordability Act (S. 732) into the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.<BR>As a
quick reminder, beginning in the 1940s, as a result of NFBs advocacy, the IRS
has included an additional standard deduction for blind people compared to
non-blind people. This deduction reduces ones taxable income and the
corresponding amount of taxes a blind person has to pay. In 2017, the standard
deduction for a non-blind person filing as single is $6,350 and the standard
deduction for a blind person filing as single is $7,900, an increase of $1,550.
As far as the effect this deduction has on how much in taxes one would have to
pay, that depends on ones individual tax situation.<BR> <BR>The deduction
is not intended to pay for a specific item, but all of the extra items that
blind people have to pay for to live the lives we want. Examples include
transportation, access technology, readers, Braille transcription, white canes,
supplies for a guide dog, etc.<BR> <BR>Your calls and emails are making a
big difference so please keep them up! The best way to contact your member of
Congress is to call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask for the
office in question. Emailing your member of Congress is also a good idea. If you
do so, please copy me at <A
href="mailto:JPare@nfb.org">JPare@nfb.org</A>.<BR>Warm
regards,<BR> <BR>John<BR> <BR>John G. Paré Jr. <BR>Executive Director
for Advocacy and Policy<BR>200 East Wells Street, Baltimore, MD 21230<BR>(410)
659-9314,</DIV>
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