[NLA] NIFL Letter in the House -- We're up to 43

[Jon Randall]

Early this afternoon, the offices of John Olver (D-MA), Thomas Allen (D-ME),
David Phelps (D-IL), Charles Bass (R-NH) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) all
agreed to sign the Sawyer-Walsh letter.

If your Representative hasn't agreed to sign on yet, there's still time to
make that follow-up phone call! Reps. Sawyer and Walsh have sent an email to
the education LA's for everyone to whom you reported faxing in a request.
That alone won't do it though. They need to be jumpstarted by YOUR follow-up
calls.

** By my count there are still 47 Congresspersons that have received
constituent requests from NLA subscribers that haven't signed on  yet!  As a
field we don't look that good if only half the people we invite actually
show up.**

PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO MAKE A FOLLOW UP PHONE CALL TO THEM THIS AFTERNOON
AND THEN AGAIN TOMORROW AFTERNOON if you don't see their names reported here
by 2PM tomorrow. (Capitol Hill Switchboard: 202-224-3121)

Yesterday, I posted the names of the education LA's for every Congressperson
reported to the NLA as having received a request to sign the Sawyer-Walsh
letter. Here they are again ...

California ... RANDY "DUKE" CUNNINGHAM (Erin Strawn); Susan Davis (Donna
Smith); Anna Eshoo (Megan O'Reiley); DUNCAN HUNTER (Tom Porter); DARRELL
ISSA (David Tebbe)
Georgia ... JOHNNY ISAKSON (Glee Smith); John Lewis (Tammy Boyd); JOHN
LINDER (Heather Bailey); Cynthia McKinney (Eric Lausten)
Illinois ... Mark Kirk (Sage Lansing); John Shimkus (Bill Olson)
Iowa ... TOM LATHAM (Kevin Berents)
Louisiana ... DAVID VITTER (Greg Facchiano)
Maine ... John Baldacci (Ashley Martinage)
Massachusetts ... James McGovern (Cindy Buhl); Marty Meehan (Suzanne
DuMont); Richard Neal (Dan Houton)
Minnesota ... Martin Sabo (Lisa Tomlinson)
Missouri ... TODD AKIN (April Foster); ROY BLUNT (Annissa McDonald); Richard
Gephardt (Matt Davis)
Montana ... DENNIS REHBERG (Amy Astin)
New Hampshire ... CHARLES BASS (James Martin)
New Jersey ... Steve Rothman (Rob Zucker); JIM SAXTON (Elise Kenderian)
New Mexico ... Thomas Udall (Minnie Frias)
North Carolina ... David Price (Susan Carr)
Ohio ... JOHN BOEHNER (John Dobrozsi); STEVE CHABOT (Amy Spolrich); DAVID
HOBSON (Ryan Guag); ROB PORTMAN (Jan Oliver); DEBORAH PRYCE (Brian
Quintenz); RALPH REGULA (Lori Rowley); PAT TIBERI (John Keeling)
Oregon ... David Wu (Brian Branton)
Pennsylvania ... Robert Brady (Teri Morgan); Frank Mascara (Libby Adray; DON
SHERWOOD (Teresa Baker)
Rhode Island ... Patrick Kennedy (Brain Vigue)
South Dakota ... JOHN THUNE (Rhett Butler)
Tennessee ... JOHN DUNCAN (Scott Fischer)
Texas ... HENRY BONILLA (Mary Pearson); LARRY COMBEST (Lisa Turner); Lloyd
Doggett (Ron Eritano); Gene Green (Sharon Scribner); Sheila Jackson Lee
(Sophia King); Silvestre Reyes (Phillip LoPiccolo)


NIFL Letter in the House, Co-signers (40)

California ... Sam Farr; Bob Filner; Barbara Lee; Juanita
Millendar-McDonald; James McGovern; George Miller
Connecticut ... John Larson; ROB SIMMONS
Illinois ... Lane Evans; TIM JOHNSON; RAY LAHOOD
Kentucky ... ANNE NORTHRUP
Louisanna ... William Jefferson
Maine ... Thomas Allen
Massachusetts ... Michael Capuano; Barney Frank; Stephen Lynch; Edward
Markey; John Olver; John Tierney
Maryland ... Benjamin Cardin; Albert Wynn
Michigan ... Dale Kildee
Missouri ... Karen McCarthy
New Jersey ... Rush Holt
New York ... JOHN MCHUGH; Edolphus Towns; JAMES WALSH*; Anthony Weiner
Ohio ... Sherrod Brown; Stephanie Tubbs Jones; Thomas Sawyer*; Ted
Strickland
Oregon ... Earl Blumenauer
Pennsylvania ... William Coyne; Mike Doyle; Joseph Hoeffel
Rhode Island ... James Langevin
Texas ... Max Sandlin
Washington ... Rick Larsen

* Sponsors of this group letter to the Secretaries of Education, Labor, and
HHS

Thanks to everyone for working on this! You're standing up to be counted and
you've convinced your elected officials to do likewise! SUPER! WAY TO GO!


Jon Randall
Public Policy Committee Chair
National Coalition for Literacy
www.natcoalitionliteracy.org

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