[Tn-talk] FW: Legislative Alert - Update on Talking Books Funding

[Seay, Michael]

-----Original Message-----
From: Hartle, Jesse [mailto:JHartle at NFB.ORG] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 4:36 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients
Subject: Legislative Alert - Update on Talking Books Funding

 

Fellow Federationists:

 

 

Thanks to your hard work over the last week, we have taken a step
forward in obtaining full funding for the Talking Books program in the
fiscal year 2008 Legislative Branch appropriations bill.  As you know,
originally the Subcommittee included $7.5 million of the $19.1 million
requested to support the conversion to digital technology for the
Talking Books program.  Today the House Committee on Appropriations
amended the Legislative Branch appropriations bill to include an
additional $5 million for this program.  While this is a victory for us,
we still have work to do.  We must now contact our own individual
representatives in the House and urge them to support any amendment that
will include full funding when this bill moves to the House floor.  We
believe that the committee will bring this legislation to the floor for
a final vote sometime next week.  As more information becomes available
on the time of this final vote, I will pass it along to you all.  This
is a top priority and an essential program for blind Americans which now
requires us to exert our best efforts to achieve passage with full
funding.  You may be connected to your Representative's office by
calling the U.S. Capitol switchboard at (202) 225-3121.  Please contact
me if you have any questions.  Thank you all for your diligence on this
matter.

 

Jesse Hartle

Government Programs Specialist

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND

 
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FW: Legislative Alert - Update on Talking Books Funding
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Hartle, Jesse [ mailto:JHartle at NFB.ORG mailto:JHartle at NFB.ORG
]
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 4:36 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients
Subject: Legislative Alert - Update on Talking Books Funding
 
Fellow Federationists:
 
 
Thanks to your hard work over the last week, we have taken a step forward in obtaining full funding for the Talking Books program in the fiscal year 2008 Legislative Branch appropriations bill.  As you know, originally the Subcommittee included $7.5 million of the $19.1 million requested to support the conversion to digital technology for the Talking Books program.  Today the House Committee on Appropriations amended the Legislative Branch appropriations bill to include an additional $5 million for this program.  While this is a victory for us, we still have work to do.  We must now contact our own individual representatives in the House and urge them to support any amendment that will include full funding when this bill moves to the House floor.  We believe that the committee will bring this legislation to the floor for a final vote sometime next week.  As more information becomes available on the time of this final vote, I will pass it along to you all.  This is a top priority and an essential program for blind Americans which now requires us to exert our best efforts to achieve passage with full funding.  You may be connected to your Representative’s office by calling the U.S. Capitol switchboard at (202) 225-3121.  Please contact me if you have any questions.  Thank you all for your diligence on this matter.
 
Jesse Hartle
Government Programs Specialist
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND
 
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