[nfbwatlk] Fw: URGENT Fw: Legislative Alert Correction - PleaseNote the Change in the Date of the Full Committee Hearing Below

[Kyle Parrish]

HELLO CHARLEY..

  HERE IT IS FOR YOUR INFORMATION...

  KYLE

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lauren Merryfield" <lauren1 at catliness.com>
To: "NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List" <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 11:57 PM
Subject: [nfbwatlk] Fw: URGENT Fw: Legislative Alert Correction - PleaseNote 
the Change in the Date of the Full Committee Hearing Below


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>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: Pamela Allen
>> To: Norma Crosby ; Ray Foret Jr. ; Meleah Jensen ; Daphne Mitchell
>> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 1:12 PM
>> Subject: Fw: Legislative Alert Correction - Please Note the Change in the
>> Date of the Full Committee Hearing Below
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>>
>> FYI
>>
>> Pamela Allen
>> Executive Director
>> Louisiana Center for the Blind
>> 800-234-4166
>> www.lcb-ruston.com
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: Hartle, Jesse
>> To: undisclosed-recipients:
>> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 7:23 AM
>> Subject: Legislative Alert Correction - Please Note the Change in the 
>> Date
>> of the Full Committee Hearing Below
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>> 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, June 12.  It is imperative that 
>> we
>> flood the offices of Committee members and the office of Subcommittee
>> Chair
>> Debbie Wasserman Schultz before June 12 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
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>>
>> House Committee on Appropriations
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>> Full Committee - June 7, 2007
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>> 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
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>> CA D, Farr, Rep Sam, 202-225-2861
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>> CA D, Honda, Rep Mike, 202-225-2631
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>> CA D, Lee, Rep Barbara, 202-225-2661
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>> CA D, Roybal-Allard, Rep Lucille, 202-225-1766
>>
>> CA D, Schiff, Rep Adam, 202-225-4176
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>> CA R, Calvert, Rep Ken, 202-225-1986
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>> CA R, Lewis, Rep Jerry, 202-225-5861
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>> CT D, DeLauro, Rep Rosa L., 202-225-3661
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>> FL D, Boyd, Rep F. Allen, 202-225-5235
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>> FL R, Crenshaw, Rep Ander, 202-225-2501
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>> FL R, Weldon, Rep Dave, 202-225-3671
>>
>> FL R, Young, Rep C. W. Bill, 202-225-5961
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>> GA D, Bishop, Rep Sanford D., Jr., 202-225-3631
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>> GA R, Kingston, Rep Jack, 202-225-5831
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>> IA R, Latham, Rep Tom, 202-225-5476
>>
>> ID R, Simpson, Rep Mike, 202-225-5531
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>> IL D, Jackson, Rep Jesse L., Jr., 202-225-0773
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>> IL R, Kirk, Rep Mark Steven, 202-225-4835
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>> IL R, LaHood, Rep Ray, 202-225-6201
>>
>> IN D, Visclosky, Rep Peter J., 202-225-2461
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>> KS R, Tiahrt, Rep Todd, 202-225-6216
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>> KY D, Chandler, Rep Ben, 202-225-4706
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>> KY R, Rogers, Rep Hal, 202-225-4601
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>> LA R, Alexander, Rep Rodney, 202-225-8490
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>> MA D, Olver, Rep John W., 202-225-5335
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>> MD D, Ruppersberger, Rep C. A. Dutch, 202-225-3061
>>
>> MI D, Kilpatrick, Rep Carolyn Cheeks, 202-225-2261
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>> NY D, Hinchey, Rep Maurice D., 202-225-6335
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>> 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
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>> NY R, Walsh, Rep James T., 202-225-3701
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>> 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, Peterson, 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
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>> TX R, Culberson, Rep John, 202-225-2571
>>
>> TX R, Granger, Rep Kay, 202-225-5071
>>
>> VA D, Moran, Rep Jim, 202-225-4376
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>> VA R, Goode, Rep Virgil H., Jr., 202-225-4711
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>> VA R, Wolf, Rep Frank R., 202-225-5136
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>> WA D, Dicks, Rep Norm, 202-225-5916
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>> WI D, Obey, Rep David R., Chair, 202-225-3365
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>> WV D, Mollohan, Rep Alan B., 202-225-4172
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