<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Members,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">We are in need of your support on a few Legislative matters at the National level. Please do what you can to help get these issues moving through Congress.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">The details are in the following email.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Thanks!<br><br><div><br></div><div> Carla McQuillan<div>Executive Director</div><div>Main Street Montessori </div><div>President</div><div>NFB of Oregon</div></div></div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> "Diggs, Parnell via NFB-Legislative-Directors" <<a href="mailto:nfb-legislative-directors@nfbnet.org">nfb-legislative-directors@nfbnet.org</a>><br><b>Date:</b> March 17, 2016 at 9:19:48 AM <br></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dear Affiliate Presidents and Legislative Directors:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thank you for all you do,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Parnell Diggs, Esq.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">National Federation of the Blind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Nfbnet-members-list [<a href="mailto:nfbnet-members-list-bounces@nfbnet.org">mailto:nfbnet-members-list-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Diggs, Parnell via Nfbnet-members-list<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 09, 2016 5:22 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:nfbnet-members-list@nfbnet.org">nfbnet-members-list@nfbnet.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nfbnet-members-list] NFB Legislative Alert<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Dear Colleagues,<br>
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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.<br>
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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).<br>
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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.<br>
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Thanks again for all you do to make sure blind Americans can live the lives we want.<br>
<br>
Parnell<br>
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Parnell Diggs, Esq.<br>
Director of Government Affairs<br>
National Federation of the Blind<br>
200 East Wells Street<br>
Baltimore, MD 21230<br>
Office: (410) 659-9314, extension 2222<br>
Mobile: (843) 267-2018<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:pdiggs@nfb.org">pdiggs@nfb.org</a><br>
Twitter: @NFB_Voice<br>
@ParnellDiggs<br>
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The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles between blind people and our dreams. You can
live the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back.<br>
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Make a gift to the National Federation of the Blind and help ensure all blind Americans live the lives they want<o:p></o:p></p>
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