[Ohio-Talk] Please Contact Senator Portman Immediately

[Todd Elzey]

I have also sent an email to urge Senator Portman to cosponsor S 212.

Todd Elzey

On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 4:09 PM Suzanne Turner via Ohio-Talk <
ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> I just emailed Miss Peery to urge Senator Portman to co-sponsor.
>
> Suzanne
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ohio-Talk <ohio-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Eric Duffy
> via Ohio-Talk
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 8:54 PM
> To: NFB of Ohio Announcement and Discussion List <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Eric Duffy <peduffy63 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Ohio-Talk] Please Contact Senator Portman Immediately
>
> John Pare writes as follows:
>
> 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.
>
> I interrupt to say that Senator Brown is already a cosponsor. So we must
> now do all that we can to garner Senator Portman’s support. We need him to
> cosponsor this legislation.
>
> Whenyou call you might say something like this:
> Hello, my name is [YOUR NAME], and I live in [CITY, Ohio]. I would like to
> urge [SENATOR Portman 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."
>
>
> An email could be very similar in message. If you Email, please copy Jeff
> Kaloc atjkaloc at nfb.org <mailto:jkaloc at nfb.org>. Your calls and emails do
> make a difference.
>
>  The best person to call or email  in senator Portman’s  office is Sarah
> Peery sarah_peery at portman.senate.gov <mailto:
> sarah_peery at portman.senate.gov>
>
> 202-224-3353
>
> If we all contact Senator Portman’s office by phone or by Email, I know we
> can get his support.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Eric
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