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Date: Friday, December 12, 2014 9:07 pm
Subject: HR 4969 update

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> HR 4969 update:
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> As we all have discovered, the political process is complex and slow
> and the wheels of government are even slower. That being said, our
> efforts with HR 4969 have had measures of success; we had hoped to
> obtain 30 cosponsors for the Bill and actually ended up with more than
> 70 cosponsors.  ARRL’s advocacy is once again being recognized and
> finding support in the halls of Congress.
> 
> It took us a while to line up an original minority cosponsor so that a
> truly bipartisan bill could be introduced.  Even so, we were able to
> amass an exceptional and surprising level of support for the Bill.
> 
> This will give us a big head start in the 114th Congress in January,
> and we have in mind reassembling many of the cosponsors that we had for
> H.R. 4969.  That will give us the opportunity to obtain a much larger
> number of cosponsors for the new Bill.  
> 
> We were well aware that there was likely not enough time to pass H.R.
> 4969 in the 113th Congress, but it was urgent to begin the process and
> amass the largest showing of support for the good work of Amateur Radio
> operators that we could, so as to build momentum for the continuation of
> the process in the 114th Congress. So far, we are way ahead of where we
> had hoped to be at this time.
> 
> Many thanks to all of you who wrote, called, and visited your
> Congressional Representatives as we began our travel in the maze of
> representative government; your efforts have not gone unnoticed, and
> have built a strong foundation for the next phase.
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> Thank you and 73,
> 
> Bob Vallio, W6RGG
> 
> Director, Pacific Division
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