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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Have your written to the Commerce Committee yet? It is important. Even if you don’t feel the need to have the security of accessible labels, many of us do. We didn’t have them in the past, and I personally have come to rely on them. This is easy to do.<o:p></o:p></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'> Compose an Email in the program of your choice.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Go to Helen’s list.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Click on the list for one of the Emails (going in order is a good plan.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Toward the bottom where it has additional information, the first thing listed is the legislator’s Email. Click on that.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>It may go to the message or to the subject line; make sure where your cursor is pointing. If it isn’t in the subject line, or even if it is and you are using Windows, alt-U will take you to the subject line.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>In the subject line I wrote please support HF2033.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Then I typed “Dear Rep. ____:<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>After typing the salutation, I pasted my written message into the message. If for some reason, such as David Young’s being the chair of the subcommittee, or if the legislator serves your district, then you might want to modify your message a bit once it gets into the message so that it will be relevant.<o:p></o:p></li></ol><p class=MsoListParagraph>I know, sometimes it is a little intimidating to do this, but if you do it enough and if you meet some of these people, you soon learn that whatever the right thing is, they want to do it. They don’t always know what it is. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph>My message is a little long, but it doesn’t have to be. Think why this bill might be important. For me, it was particularly important because I was able to care more efficiently for Bob in his last month of life.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph>In the Federation, one of the things we have to remember is that we have the right to tell our legislators and our Congressional members what will help us lead the lives we want. It is why we attend the Washington Seminar each year, and it is why we spend time at the legislature. We have eight days until the first funnel. If we don’t get this bill out of committee and into the House, it is dead for this year.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph>I do hope you will all consider writing letters to the committee members.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph>Cindy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>