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From: Carolyn Caywood <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [ascla-l] FW: [Nfb-announce] Urgent-Action Needed by 6 PM
Today Regarding Accessible Textbooks
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FYI, from the National Federation of the Blind.
Carolyn Caywood, MSLS
Bayside Special Services Library
936 Independence Blvd. Virginia Beach, VA 23455
757-385-2688, fax 757-464-6741 [log in to unmask]
http://www.VBgov.com/library
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From: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:42 PM
Subject: [Nfb-announce] Urgent-Action Needed by 6 PM Today Regarding
Accessible Textbooks
>
> Fellow Federationists:
>
>
> We have an urgent need to defeat
> language proposed for a bill that goes to mark
> up Wednesday, November 14, 2007. The language is Section 766A in H.R.
> 4137.
>
>
> On Monday, November 5, 2007, we received
> proposed bill language for a Commission designed
> to study issues concerning the accessibility of
> textbooks in higher education, and also charged
> with developing a model project that would be
> designed to support systems that were currently
> in place. We expressed concerns relating to the
> composition of the Commission. First
> problem: The membership as described by the
> legislation involved minimal input from
> consumers, while being more favorable to the
> publishing community. Second problem: The
> pilot program is scheduled to last a minimum of
> one year longer than the Commission, and, worse
> yet, could extend longer than one year if the
> Secretary of Education chooses to extend the
> pilot program. This language, if included in
> the bill, would continue to delay access to
> information for blind students in institutions
> of Higher Education, possibly for years to come.
>
>
> We submitted revised language to the Committee
> asking that a majority of the Commission be
> composed of individuals with print
> disabilities. We told them that if the
> Commission was not consumer-driven, then little
> significance would come from this
> legislation. We also urged the Committee to
> strengthen the purpose of the Commission, from
> merely studying the problem, to developing
> legislation to be enacted by Congress. When
> bill H.R. 4137 was introduced, however, we
> learned that none of our suggested changes to
> improve this legislation for blind people were included.
>
>
> This bill is scheduled to be marked up tomorrow,
> Wednesday, November 14, 2007 so you need to call immediately.
>
>
> We need you to make two calls:
>
> 1. Call Chairman George Miller's office at
> (202) 225-2095. He is the Chairman of the House
> Committee on Education and Labor. Tell him that
> section 766A will not help blind college
> students and urge him to have it removed.
>
> 2. If your Representative is on the below
> list of Education and Labor Committee members,
> you need to call him or her. Tell your
> representative that section 766A will not help
> blind college students and urge him or her to vote to have it removed.
>
>
> I have included a list of the members of the
> House Education and Labor Committee below with
> their phone numbers. You can also be connected
> with Congressional offices by calling the
> Capitol switchboard at (202) 225-3121. Please
> find your state in the lists below and call now,
> then get your neighbors to call. Ask relatives
> and friends who live in other states to make these calls as well.
>
>
> Thank you all very much for your help on this
> urgent matter. If you have any questions,
> please call me at (410) 659-9314, extension
> 2233, or e-mail me at [log in to unmask]
>
>
> House Committee on Education and Labor
>
> Full Committee
>
> 11/13/07
>
>
> Rep. George Miller (D CA-7), Chair
>
>
> Majority (27 D):
>
>
> Rep. George Miller (D CA-7) 202-225-2095
>
> Rep. Dale E. Kildee (D MI-5) 202-225-3611
>
> Rep. Donald M. Payne (D NJ-10) 202-225-3436
>
> Rep. Robert E. Andrews (D NJ-1) 202-225-6501
>
> Rep. Robert C. Scott (D VA-3) 202-225-8351
>
> Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D CA-6) 202-225-5161
>
> Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D TX-15) 202-225-2531
>
> Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D NY-4) 202-225-5516
>
> Rep. John F. Tierney (D MA-6) 202-225-8020
>
> Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D OH-10) 202-225-5871
>
> Rep. David Wu (D OR-1) 202-225-0855
>
> Rep. Rush Holt (D NJ-12) 202-225-5801
>
> Rep. Susan Davis (D CA-53) 202-225-2040
>
> Rep. Danny K. Davis (D IL-7) 202-225-5006
>
> Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D AZ-7) 202-225-2435
>
> Rep. Timothy H. Bishop (D NY-1) 202-225-3826
>
> Rep. Linda Sánchez (D CA-39) 202-225-6676
>
> Rep. John P. Sarbanes (D MD-3) 202-225-4016
>
> Rep. Joe Sestak (D PA-7) 202-225-2011
>
> Rep. Dave Loebsack (D IA-2) 202-225-6576
>
> Rep. Mazie K. Hirono (D HI-2) 202-225-4906
>
> Rep. Jason Altmire (D PA-4) 202-225-2565
>
> Rep. John Yarmuth (D KY-3) 202-225-5401
>
> Rep. Phil Hare (D IL-17) 202-225-5905
>
> Rep. Yvette Clarke (D NY-11) 202-225-6231
>
> Rep. Joe Courtney (D CT-2) 202-225-2076
>
> Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D NH-1) 202-225-5456
>
>
> Minority (22 R):
>
>
> Rep. Howard P. Buck McKeon (R CA-25) 202-225-1956
>
> Rep. Thomas E. Petri (R WI-6) 202-225-2476
>
> Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R MI-2) 202-225-4401
>
> Rep. Michael N. Castle (R DE-At Large) 202-225-4165
>
> Rep. Mark Souder (R IN-3) 202-225-4436
>
> Rep. Vernon J. Ehlers (R MI-3) 202-225-3831
>
> Rep. Judy Biggert (R IL-13) 202-225-3515
>
> Rep. Todd Russell Platts (R PA-19) 202-225-5836
>
> Rep. Ric Keller (R FL-8) 202-225-2176
>
> Rep. Joe Wilson (R SC-2) 202-225-2452
>
> Rep. John Kline (R MN-2) 202-225-2271
>
> Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R WA-5) 202-225-2006
>
> Rep. Kenny Marchant (R TX-24) 202-225-6605
>
> Rep. Tom Price (R GA-6) 202-225-4501
>
> Res. Comm. Luis G. Fortuño (R ) 202-225-2615
>
> Rep. Charles Boustany Jr. (R LA-7) 202-225-2031
>
> Rep. Virginia Foxx (R NC-5) 202-225-2071
>
> Rep. Randy Kuhl (R NY-29) 202-225-3161
>
> Rep. Rob Bishop (R UT-1) 202-225-0453
>
> Rep. David Davis (R TN-1) 202-225-6356
>
> Rep. Tim Walberg (R MI-7) 202-225-6276
>
> Rep. Dean Heller (R NV-2) 202-225-6155
>
>
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