[Iabs-talk] Legislative Alert Action Needed for Higher Education Bill

[David Andrews]

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>Fellow Federationists:
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>             Members of the House and the Senate 
> are currently working to resolve the 
> differences between H.R. 4137 and S. 1642, the 
> Higher Education reauthorization bills that 
> passed last year.  We expect that the floor 
> action on the final Higher Education 
> legislation will take place by the first of 
> May.  As you all know, the House version (H.R. 
> 4137) includes provisions to create a 
> commission to study the problem of inaccessible 
> textbooks in higher education, as well as to 
> propose legislation to solve this 
> problem.  This language is found in Section 766 
> (A), (B), and (C).  We now need to ensure that 
> this language is included in the final Higher Education bill.
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>             Below is a list of the House and 
> the Senate committees that are working on this 
> legislation.  If your Senator or Representative 
> appears on this list, please call him or her, 
> and ask that they include the House language in 
> Section 766 (A), (B), and (C) in the final 
> version of the Higher Education 
> legislation.  If you are not represented on the 
> below list, please contact the House Committee 
> on Education and Labor, and the Senate 
> Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 
> Pensions, and urge them to include this 
> language.  We need to make these phone calls by 
> this Friday, April 18.  You may be connected to 
> your member, and the two Committee offices by 
> calling the Capitol switchboard at (202) 
> 225-3121.  Thank you all very much for your work on this important matter.
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>Jesse Hartle
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>Government Programs Specialist
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>NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND
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>House Committee on Education and Labor
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>Rep. George Miller (D-CA), Chair
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>Rep. Dale E. Kildee (D-MI)
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>Rep. Donald M. Payne (D-NJ)
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>Rep. Robert E. Andrews (D-NJ)
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>Rep. Robert C. Scott (D-VA)
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>Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA)
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>Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX)
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>Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY)
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>Rep. John F. Tierney (D-MA)
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>Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH)
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>Rep. David Wu (D-OR)
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>Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ)
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>Rep. Susan Davis (D-CA)
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>Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-IL)
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>Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ)
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>Rep. Timothy H. Bishop (D-NY)
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>Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-CA)
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>Rep. John P. Sarbanes (D-MD)
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>Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA)
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>Rep. Dave Loebsack (D-IA)
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>Rep. Mazie K. Hirono (D-H)
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>Rep. Jason Altmire (DPA)
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>Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY)
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>Rep. Phil Hare (D-IL)
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>Rep. Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY)
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>Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT)
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>Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH)
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>Rep. Howard P. Buck McKeon (R-CA), Ranking Minority Member
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>Rep. Thomas E. Petri (R-WI)
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>Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI)
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>Rep. Michael N. Castle (R-DE)
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>Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN)
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>Rep. Vernon J. Ehlers (R-MI)
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>Rep. Judy Biggert (R-IL)
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>Rep. Todd Russell Platts (R-PA)
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>Rep. Ric Keller (R-FL)
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>Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC)
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>Rep. John Kline (R-MN)
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>Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA)
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>Rep. Kenny Marchant (R-TX)
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>Rep. Tom Price (R-GA)
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>Res. Comm. Luis G. Fortuño (R-PR)
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>Rep. Charles Boustany Jr. (R-LA)
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>Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC)
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>Rep. Randy Kuhl (R-NY)
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>Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT)
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>Rep. David Davis (R-TN)
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>Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI)
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>Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
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>Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA), Chair
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>Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-CT)
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>Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA)
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>Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD)
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>Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
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>Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)
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>Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI)
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>Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY)
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>Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)
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>Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-VT)
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>Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
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>Sen. Michael B. Enzi (R-WY), Ranking Minority Member
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>Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH)
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>Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
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>Sen. Richard M. Burr (R-NC)
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>Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA)
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>Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
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>Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT)
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>Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS)
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>Sen. Wayne Allard (R-CO)
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>Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK)