[nfb-talk] Alert Action Needed To Protect Our Talking Book Program:

Fri Jun 8 12:08:23 CDT 2007

I have called and e-mail all my representatives in the State of NY by phone and e-mail. Please do your best out there everyone.Cheryl and Maxx (Guide Dog from GDF)2 year post kidney transplant > Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 12:49:54 -0400> From: kenneth.chrane at verizon.net> To: NFB-Talk at nfbnet.org> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Alert Action Needed To Protect Our Talking Book Program:> > Hello everyone on this list.> I have already contacted my two senators and my Congressman about funding > the digital talking book program.> Let us keep the pressure on their Sub Committee so that they won't undermind > our talking book program.> > When we work hard enough, we will keep our talking book program.> > Kenneth ChraneHi Ray, good for you.> I already contacted Congressman Cummings, Senators Barbara Mikulski, and Ben> Cardin and urged them to support our Digital Talking Book Program.> I not only emailed them, but I also called them.> > Kenneth Chrane> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ray Foret Jr." <rforetjr at bellsouth.net>> To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 12:25 PM> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Alert Action Needed To Protect Our Talking Book> Program:> > > > Already acted on it. Sent eight faxes and made some calls too.> >> > Sincerely yours,> > The Constantly Barefooted,> > Ray> > Home phone and fax:> > (985)853-0139> > E-mail:> > rforetjr at bellsouth.net> > Skype Name:> > barefootedray> > Blog:> > www.raysworld.blogs.com> > Podcast .rss Feed:> > http://feeds.feedburner.com/worldofray> >> > God bless President George W. Bush!> > God bless our troops!> > and God bless America> > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Kenneth Chrane" <kenneth.chrane at verizon.net>> > To: "Multiple recipients of NFBnet NFB-Talk Mailing List"> > <NFB-Talk at nfbnet.org>> > Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 10:29 AM> > Subject: [nfb-talk] Alert Action Needed To Protect Our Talking Book> > Program:> >> >> > From: Hartle, Jesse> > Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 4:55 PM> > Subject: Legislative Alert - Urgent Action Needed to Protect Talking Books> > Program> >> >> > Fellow Federationists:> >> > Urgent action is needed to respond to the House's Legislative Branch> > Subcommittee's proposed appropriations bill relating to the fiscal year> > 2008> > budget> > request of the Library of Congress. As you all know the National Library> > Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) has been working on> > a> > plan to convert the Talking Books program to a digital format. The cost> > of> > this needed transition from analog cassette to digital technology is $76.4> > million over a four-year period ($19.1 million for each of the next four> > years). The House Legislative Branch Subcommittee has only included $7.5> > million> > for this project in the bill, which passed the subcommittee yesterday.> > The> > subcommittee also voted against an amendment raised by Congressman Ray> > LaHood> > of Illinois that sought to include full funding for the NLS upgrade. Not> > only is this amount just a third of what was requested by the Library of> > Congress,> > but the subcommittee further gave the Librarian of Congress the power to> > transfer all or part of the funds from the Books for the Blind program to> > other> > upgrades for the Library. Essentially, if the Librarian of Congress> > chooses> > to transfer funds from the $7.5 million allotted for the digital> > conversion> > program, the Talking Books program will be killed due to a lack of> > equipment> > to repair broken tape players and the simple fact that all aspects of> > cassette> > technology will become obsolete in the next four years.> >> > The Legislative Branch Appropriations bill will now be presented to the> > full> > Committee on Appropriations on Tuesday, July 12. It is imperative that we> > flood the offices of Committee members and the office of Subcommittee> > Chair> > Debbie Wasserman Schultz before July 12th to urge them to include the full> > funding for the digital upgrade and to protect these funds from being> > shifted within the Library of Congress to meet other needs. The Talking> > Books program> > is the largest and most essential available source of information for> > blind> > people as a whole, and we need to protect this information source with our> > greatest effort. Included below is a list of the members on the> > Appropriations Committee and their office numbers. Please contact their> > offices, and> > let them know how important the Talking Books program is to the blind. I> > will update you with further information on this initiative, but your> > calls> > should> > start immediately.> >> > Thanks in advance for all of your hard work.> >> > Jesse Hartle> >> > Government Program Specialist> >> > NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND> >> > 1800 Johnson Street, Baltimore, MD 21230> >> > (410) 659-9314, ext. 2233> >> > jhartle at nfb.org> >> > House Committee on Appropriations> >> > Full Committee - June 7, 2007> >> > FL D, Schultz, Rep Debbie Wasserman, 202-225-7931> >> > (alphabetical by state)> >> > AL D, Cramer, Rep Robert E. Bud, Jr., 202-225-4801> >> > AL R, Aderholt, Rep Robert B., 202-225-4876> >> > AR D, Berry, Rep Marion, 202-225-4076> >> > AZ D, Pastor, Rep Ed, 202-225-4065> >> > CA D, Farr, Rep Sam, 202-225-2861> >> > CA D, Honda, Rep Mike, 202-225-2631> >> > CA D, Lee, Rep Barbara, 202-225-2661> >> > CA D, Roybal-Allard, Rep Lucille, 202-225-1766> >> > CA D, Schiff, Rep Adam, 202-225-4176> >> > CA R, Calvert, Rep Ken, 202-225-1986> >> > CA R, Lewis, Rep Jerry, 202-225-5861> >> > CT D, DeLauro, Rep Rosa L., 202-225-3661> >> > FL D, Boyd, Rep F. Allen, 202-225-5235> >> > FL R, Crenshaw, Rep Ander, 202-225-2501> >> > FL R, Weldon, Rep Dave, 202-225-3671> >> > FL R, Young, Rep C. W. Bill, 202-225-5961> >> > GA D, Bishop, Rep Sanford D., Jr., 202-225-3631> >> > GA R, Kingston, Rep Jack, 202-225-5831> >> > IA R, Latham, Rep Tom, 202-225-5476> >> > ID R, Simpson, Rep Mike, 202-225-5531> >> > IL D, Jackson, Rep Jesse L., Jr., 202-225-0773> >> > IL R, Kirk, Rep Mark Steven, 202-225-4835> >> > IL R, LaHood, Rep Ray, 202-225-6201> >> > IN D, Visclosky, Rep Peter J., 202-225-2461> >> > KS R, Tiahrt, Rep Todd, 202-225-6216> >> > KY D, Chandler, Rep Ben, 202-225-4706> >> > KY R, Rogers, Rep Hal, 202-225-4601> >> > LA R, Alexander, Rep Rodney, 202-225-8490> >> > MA D, Olver, Rep John W., 202-225-5335> >> > MD D, Ruppersberger, Rep C. A. Dutch, 202-225-3061> >> > MI D, Kilpatrick, Rep Carolyn Cheeks, 202-225-2261> >> > MI R, Knollenberg, Rep Joe, 202-225-5802> >> > MN D, McCollum, Rep Betty, 202-225-6631> >> > MO R, Emerson, Rep Jo Ann, 202-225-4404> >> > MS R, Wicker, Rep Roger F., 202-225-4306> >> > MT R, Rehberg, Rep Dennis, 202-225-3211> >> > NC D, Price, Rep David E., 202-225-1784> >> > NJ D, Rothman, Rep Steve, 202-225-5061> >> > NJ R, Frelinghuysen, Rep Rodney P., 202-225-5034> >> > NM D, Udall, Rep Tom, 202-225-6190> >> > NY D, Hinchey, Rep Maurice D., 202-225-6335> >> > NY D, Israel, Rep Steve, 202-225-3335> >> > NY D, Lowey, Rep Nita M., 202-225-6506> >> > NY D, Serrano, Rep Jose E., 202-225-4361> >> > NY R, Walsh, Rep James T., 202-225-3701> >> > OH D, Kaptur, Rep Marcy, 202-225-4146> >> > OH D, Ryan, Rep Tim, 202-225-5261> >> > OH R, Hobson, Rep David L., 202-225-4324> >> > OH R, Regula, Rep Ralph, 202-225-3876> >> > PA D, Fattah, Rep Chaka, 202-225-4001> >> > PA D, Murtha, Rep John P., 202-225-2065> >> > PA R, Peter son, Rep John E., 202-225-5121> >> > RI D, Kennedy, Rep Patrick J., 202-225-4911> >> > TN R, Wamp, Rep Zach, 202-225-3271> >> > TX D, Edwards, Rep Chet, 202-225-6105> >> > TX D, Rodriguez, Rep Ciro D., 202-225-4511> >> > TX R, Carter, Rep John R., 202-225-3864> >> > TX R, Culberson, Rep John, 202-225-2571> >> > TX R, Granger, Rep Kay, 202-225-5071> >> > VA D, Moran, Rep Jim, 202-225-4376> >> > VA R, Goode, Rep Virgil H., Jr., 202-225-4711> >> > VA R, Wolf, Rep Frank R., 202-225-5136> >> > WA D, Dicks, Rep Norm, 202-225-5916> >> > WI D, Obey, Rep David R., Chair, 202-225-3365> >> > WV D, Mollohan, Rep Alan B., 202-225-4172> >> >> > <P><HR></P>_______________________________________________> > nfb-talk mailing list> > nfb-talk at nfbnet.org> > http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-talk> >> >> > _______________________________________________> > nfb-talk mailing list> > nfb-talk at nfbnet.org> > http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-talk> >> > _______________________________________________> > nfb-talk mailing list> > nfb-talk at nfbnet.org> > http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-talk> >> > > _______________________________________________> nfb-talk mailing list> nfb-talk at nfbnet.org> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-talk
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I have called and e-mail all my representatives in the State of NY by phone and e-mail. Please do your best out there everyone.
Cheryl and Maxx (Guide Dog from GDF)
2 year post kidney transplant
> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 12:49:54 -0400
> From: kenneth.chrane at verizon.net
> To: NFB-Talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Alert Action Needed To Protect Our Talking Book Program:
>
> Hello everyone on this list.
> I have already contacted my two senators and my Congressman about funding
> the digital talking book program.
> Let us keep the pressure on their Sub Committee so that they won't undermind
> our talking book program.
>
> When we work hard enough, we will keep our talking book program.
>
> Kenneth ChraneHi Ray, good for you.
> I already contacted Congressman Cummings, Senators Barbara Mikulski, and Ben
> Cardin and urged them to support our Digital Talking Book Program.
> I not only emailed them, but I also called them.
>
> Kenneth Chrane
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ray Foret Jr." <rforetjr at bellsouth.net>
> To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 12:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Alert Action Needed To Protect Our Talking Book
> Program:
>
>
> > Already acted on it. Sent eight faxes and made some calls too.
> >
> > Sincerely yours,
> > The Constantly Barefooted,
> > Ray
> > Home phone and fax:
> > (985)853-0139
> > E-mail:
> > rforetjr at bellsouth.net
> > Skype Name:
> > barefootedray
> > Blog:
> > www.raysworld.blogs.com
> > Podcast .rss Feed:
> > http://feeds.feedburner.com/worldofray
> >
> > God bless President George W. Bush!
> > God bless our troops!
> > and God bless America
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kenneth Chrane" <kenneth.chrane at verizon.net>
> > To: "Multiple recipients of NFBnet NFB-Talk Mailing List"
> > <NFB-Talk at nfbnet.org>
> > Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 10:29 AM
> > Subject: [nfb-talk] Alert Action Needed To Protect Our Talking Book
> > Program:
> >
> >
> > From: Hartle, Jesse
> > Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 4:55 PM
> > Subject: Legislative Alert - Urgent Action Needed to Protect Talking Books
> > Program
> >
> >
> > Fellow Federationists:
> >
> > Urgent action is needed to respond to the House's Legislative Branch
> > Subcommittee's proposed appropriations bill relating to the fiscal year
> > 2008
> > budget
> > request of the Library of Congress. As you all know the National Library
> > Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) has been working on
> > a
> > plan to convert the Talking Books program to a digital format. The cost
> > of
> > this needed transition from analog cassette to digital technology is $76.4
> > million over a four-year period ($19.1 million for each of the next four
> > years). The House Legislative Branch Subcommittee has only included $7.5
> > million
> > for this project in the bill, which passed the subcommittee yesterday.
> > The
> > subcommittee also voted against an amendment raised by Congressman Ray
> > LaHood
> > of Illinois that sought to include full funding for the NLS upgrade. Not
> > only is this amount just a third of what was requested by the Library of
> > Congress,
> > but the subcommittee further gave the Librarian of Congress the power to
> > transfer all or part of the funds from the Books for the Blind program to
> > other
> > upgrades for the Library. Essentially, if the Librarian of Congress
> > chooses
> > to transfer funds from the $7.5 million allotted for the digital
> > conversion
> > program, the Talking Books program will be killed due to a lack of
> > equipment
> > to repair broken tape players and the simple fact that all aspects of
> > cassette
> > technology will become obsolete in the next four years.
> >
> > The Legislative Branch Appropriations bill will now be presented to the
> > full
> > Committee on Appropriations on Tuesday, July 12. It is imperative that we
> > flood the offices of Committee members and the office of Subcommittee
> > Chair
> > Debbie Wasserman Schultz before July 12th to urge them to include the full
> > funding for the digital upgrade and to protect these funds from being
> > shifted within the Library of Congress to meet other needs. The Talking
> > Books program
> > is the largest and most essential available source of information for
> > blind
> > people as a whole, and we need to protect this information source with our
> > greatest effort. Included below is a list of the members on the
> > Appropriations Committee and their office numbers. Please contact their
> > offices, and
> > let them know how important the Talking Books program is to the blind. I
> > will update you with further information on this initiative, but your
> > calls
> > should
> > start immediately.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for all of your hard work.
> >
> > Jesse Hartle
> >
> > Government Program Specialist
> >
> > NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND
> >
> > 1800 Johnson Street, Baltimore, MD 21230
> >
> > (410) 659-9314, ext. 2233
> >
> > jhartle at nfb.org
> >
> > House Committee on Appropriations
> >
> > Full Committee - June 7, 2007
> >
> > FL D, Schultz, Rep Debbie Wasserman, 202-225-7931
> >
> > (alphabetical by state)
> >
> > AL D, Cramer, Rep Robert E. Bud, Jr., 202-225-4801
> >
> > AL R, Aderholt, Rep Robert B., 202-225-4876
> >
> > AR D, Berry, Rep Marion, 202-225-4076
> >
> > AZ D, Pastor, Rep Ed, 202-225-4065
> >
> > CA D, Farr, Rep Sam, 202-225-2861
> >
> > CA D, Honda, Rep Mike, 202-225-2631
> >
> > CA D, Lee, Rep Barbara, 202-225-2661
> >
> > CA D, Roybal-Allard, Rep Lucille, 202-225-1766
> >
> > CA D, Schiff, Rep Adam, 202-225-4176
> >
> > CA R, Calvert, Rep Ken, 202-225-1986
> >
> > CA R, Lewis, Rep Jerry, 202-225-5861
> >
> > CT D, DeLauro, Rep Rosa L., 202-225-3661
> >
> > FL D, Boyd, Rep F. Allen, 202-225-5235
> >
> > FL R, Crenshaw, Rep Ander, 202-225-2501
> >
> > FL R, Weldon, Rep Dave, 202-225-3671
> >
> > FL R, Young, Rep C. W. Bill, 202-225-5961
> >
> > GA D, Bishop, Rep Sanford D., Jr., 202-225-3631
> >
> > GA R, Kingston, Rep Jack, 202-225-5831
> >
> > IA R, Latham, Rep Tom, 202-225-5476
> >
> > ID R, Simpson, Rep Mike, 202-225-5531
> >
> > IL D, Jackson, Rep Jesse L., Jr., 202-225-0773
> >
> > IL R, Kirk, Rep Mark Steven, 202-225-4835
> >
> > IL R, LaHood, Rep Ray, 202-225-6201
> >
> > IN D, Visclosky, Rep Peter J., 202-225-2461
> >
> > KS R, Tiahrt, Rep Todd, 202-225-6216
> >
> > KY D, Chandler, Rep Ben, 202-225-4706
> >
> > KY R, Rogers, Rep Hal, 202-225-4601
> >
> > LA R, Alexander, Rep Rodney, 202-225-8490
> >
> > MA D, Olver, Rep John W., 202-225-5335
> >
> > MD D, Ruppersberger, Rep C. A. Dutch, 202-225-3061
> >
> > MI D, Kilpatrick, Rep Carolyn Cheeks, 202-225-2261
> >
> > MI R, Knollenberg, Rep Joe, 202-225-5802
> >
> > MN D, McCollum, Rep Betty, 202-225-6631
> >
> > MO R, Emerson, Rep Jo Ann, 202-225-4404
> >
> > MS R, Wicker, Rep Roger F., 202-225-4306
> >
> > MT R, Rehberg, Rep Dennis, 202-225-3211
> >
> > NC D, Price, Rep David E., 202-225-1784
> >
> > NJ D, Rothman, Rep Steve, 202-225-5061
> >
> > NJ R, Frelinghuysen, Rep Rodney P., 202-225-5034
> >
> > NM D, Udall, Rep Tom, 202-225-6190
> >
> > NY D, Hinchey, Rep Maurice D., 202-225-6335
> >
> > NY D, Israel, Rep Steve, 202-225-3335
> >
> > NY D, Lowey, Rep Nita M., 202-225-6506
> >
> > NY D, Serrano, Rep Jose E., 202-225-4361
> >
> > NY R, Walsh, Rep James T., 202-225-3701
> >
> > OH D, Kaptur, Rep Marcy, 202-225-4146
> >
> > OH D, Ryan, Rep Tim, 202-225-5261
> >
> > OH R, Hobson, Rep David L., 202-225-4324
> >
> > OH R, Regula, Rep Ralph, 202-225-3876
> >
> > PA D, Fattah, Rep Chaka, 202-225-4001
> >
> > PA D, Murtha, Rep John P., 202-225-2065
> >
> > PA R, Peter son, Rep John E., 202-225-5121
> >
> > RI D, Kennedy, Rep Patrick J., 202-225-4911
> >
> > TN R, Wamp, Rep Zach, 202-225-3271
> >
> > TX D, Edwards, Rep Chet, 202-225-6105
> >
> > TX D, Rodriguez, Rep Ciro D., 202-225-4511
> >
> > TX R, Carter, Rep John R., 202-225-3864
> >
> > TX R, Culberson, Rep John, 202-225-2571
> >
> > TX R, Granger, Rep Kay, 202-225-5071
> >
> > VA D, Moran, Rep Jim, 202-225-4376
> >
> > VA R, Goode, Rep Virgil H., Jr., 202-225-4711
> >
> > VA R, Wolf, Rep Frank R., 202-225-5136
> >
> > WA D, Dicks, Rep Norm, 202-225-5916
> >
> > WI D, Obey, Rep David R., Chair, 202-225-3365
> >
> > WV D, Mollohan, Rep Alan B., 202-225-4172
> >
> >
> > <P><HR></P>_______________________________________________
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> >
> >
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> >
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> >
>
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