[Nfbf-l] Support the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA

[Jorge Hernandez]

Florida Federationists

 

Please read the Email below from our Governmental Affairs director.  Please
take time to fill out the form.  It is very simple and it takes about 3
minutes  to complete.  Lets support our veterans.

 

Fellow Federationists,

The end of August is in sight; and with it, the summer Congressional Recess
will draw to a close. As Congress reconvenes in September, a conference
committee will meet to resolve differences in the House and Senate versions
of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). By now, you are aware that
the House version of the NDAA contains the Space Available (Space A) bill,
and the Senate version does not. When the conference committee concludes its
work on the joint version of the NDAA, the joint bill will contain Space A,
or it will not.

Thus, our objective is clear. As President Riccobono pointed out in last
week's edition of the President's Notebook, we need to thank Congressman Mac
Thornberry, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, for including
our Space A bill in the House version of the NDAA. We hope our outreach
effort on this issue will provide sufficient encouragement to the House
conferees to convince them to insist that the Space A language be included
in the joint version of the NDAA, which ultimately will be passed by both
houses and sent to the President of the United States to be signed into law.
But it starts with our continuing outreach.

We have developed a short webform, which you can access here
www.nfb.org/thank-you-thornberry to submit a thank you letter to Chairman
Thornberry sending him the message that we do care about Space A. This
exercise will take about two minutes. Please use this link
www.nfb.org/thank-you-thornberry.

Thank you, fellow Federationists, for your advocacy in this area. We have a
great chance of getting Space A enacted this session if we remain vigilant.
Please take care of this short task before getting up from your computer.
Once again, that link is www.nfb.org/thank-you-thornberry.

As always, thanks for all you do.

Parnell

Parnell Diggs, Esq.
Director of Government Affairs
National Federation of the Blind
200 East Wells Street
Baltimore, MD 21230
Office: (410) 659-9314, extension 2222
Mobile: (843) 267-2018
Email: pdiggs at nfb.org
Twitter: @NFB_Voice
  @ParnellDiggs

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