[NABS-L] Fwd: URGENT Legislative Alert - Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act Update

[Kaleigh Brendle]

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From: Young, Justin via NFBNet-Members-List <nfbnet-members-list at nfbnet.org>
Date: Sun, Dec 1, 2024 at 12:36 PM
Subject: [Nfbnet-members-list] URGENT Legislative Alert - Transformation to
Competitive Integrated Employment Act Update
To: nfbnet-members-list at nfbnet.org <nfbnet-members-list at nfbnet.org>


Dear Federation Family:



I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. I wanted to update everyone on the
TCIEA Legislative Alert from Friday, November 22. We have done a great job
of flooding the four offices mentioned in the original email with our
collective calls and emails, but we cannot let up. If you haven’t had a
chance to call or email the offices below, it’s not too late, and if you
have already done so, it wouldn’t hurt to send another to really
demonstrate how important this issue is to us.



For your convenience, I’ve included the entirety of the previous
Legislative Alert below, which includes the suggested script and contact
information for the offices.



Thanks for all you do,

Justin



We are coming down to the wire on the 118th Congress and we want to make
sure that we’ve done everything that we possibly can in order to advocate
for our legislative priorities. In this case, we are trying to ensure that
the Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act (TCIEA) is
included in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)
reauthorization bill that is currently being considered. Right now is a
crucial time for this initiative because Congress wants to pass the WIOA
reauthorization when they return after Thanksgiving. We need you to flood
the email inboxes and telephone lines and voicemail boxes of four key
committee staff members in order to make sure TCIEA gets included in the
final bill:



Amy Jones

Majority Staff Director, House Committee on Education and the Workforce

Amy.jones at mail.house.gov

202-225-4527



Véronique Pluviose-Fenton

Minority Staff Director, House Committee on Education and the Workforce

veronique.pluviose at mail.house.gov

202-225-3725



Warren Gunnels

Majority Staff Director, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and
Pensions

Warren_Gunnels at help.senate.gov

202-224-0767



Amanda Lincoln

Minority Staff Director, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and
Pensions

Amanda_lincoln at help.senate.gov

202-224-5375



When you call or email, you might say something like:



“Dear [NAME]:



I am urging the [HOUSE EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE COMMITTEE/SENATE HELP
COMMITTEE] to please include the TCIEA in the WIOA reauthorization bill.
The TCIEA will eliminate the payment of subminimum wages for people with
disabilities and eliminate the need for a government program to monitor
special wage certificate holders. Thank you.”



If you send an email, please use the subject line “Please Include the TCIEA
in the WIOA Reauthorization” and copy Justin Young at jyoung at nfb.org.



Congress is working diligently to move the WIOA reauthorization bill as
soon as they get back after the Thanksgiving break, so time is of the
essence for us to make our voices heard. If you have any questions, please
contact me.



Thank you for all that you do,



Justin T. Young, Ed.D

Government Affairs Specialist, National Federation of the Blind

200 East Wells Street, Baltimore, MD 21230
<https://www.google.com/maps/search/200+East+Wells+Street,+Baltimore,+MD+21230?entry=gmail&source=g>


410-659-9314, extension 2210 | jyoung at nfb.org