NPCA hires coordinator to make calls for Peace Corps Legislation
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TO: ALL RPCVs
FROM: Dave Hibbard & Roger Landrum, Coalition for the PC Charter for the 21st Century, & Dane Smith, Ed Crane and Pat Reilly of the NPCA
RE: PEACE CORPS LEGISLATION: TIME TO ACT!
We are down to the wire---it’s the bottom of the 9th and the bases are loaded. Congress adjourns for this session on October 5th.
We need you immediate action in the Senate, and in the House....and elsewhere.
1. IN THE SENATE
Call your Senator (212-224-3121 is the Capitol Switchboard. Ask to be connected with your Senator’s office). Ask for the Staffer in charge of Peace Corps affairs. Tell them who you are and that you want your Senator to support the Peace Corps by co-sponsoring Senate bill # 2667, the Peace Corps Charter for the 21st Century. Ask for the Staffer’s email address and fax number. Put the same request into an email and also send the same request via a fax. Call back weekly to inquire if your Senator has signed on as a co-sponsor yet. If your Senator is Helms, Lugar, Hagel, G. Smith, Frist, Chafee, Allen, Brownback, Enzi, Biden, Sarbanes, Feingold, Wellstone, Boxer, Nelson or Rockefeller, all on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, your communication is especially important.
2. IN THE HOUSE
Call your Representative (212-224-3121 is the Capitol Switchboard. Ask to be connected to your Representative’s office). Tell them there are 2 competing bills concerning the Peace Corps in the House right now, HR 4979, supported by the NPCA and the RPCV Community, and HR 5255 which provides ONLY for money to expand the Peace Corps. Tell the Staffer you want your Representative to support and co-sponsor HR 4979 because it is a much better and more comprehensive bill which calls for an expanded role for RPCVs in forwarding the goals of the Peace Corps (which HR 5255 does not advocate.) Ask the Staffer for his email address and fax number and send him/her the same requests by email and fax. Call back weekly for progress. If your Representative is Hyde, Gilman, Leach, Bereuter, C. Smith, Burton, Gallegly, Ros-Lehtinen, Ballenger, Rohrabacher, Royce, King, Chabot, Houghton, McHugh, Burr, Cooksey, Tancredo, Paul, N. Smith, Pitts, Issa, Cantor, Flake, Kerns, Davis, or M. Green, all on the House International Relations Committee, your communication is vitally important.
3. IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Call The President at 202-224-1414, ask to leave an opinion and tell his voice mail you are in favor of S 2667 and HR 4979. Fax him the same message to the White House, at 202-456-2461.
4. AT THE PEACE CORPS
Call the Peace Corps Director, Gaddi Vasquez, and the Deputy Director, Jody Olsen (RPCV Tunisia) at 800-424-8580 (the Switchboard), ask to speak to the Director, and then the Deputy Director, then leave your message with which ever Staff person you get. Fax the same message to 202-692-2101. Fax and call once a week.
5. IN THE POCKETBOOK & WALLET
We need your financial support---if we are going to get this legislation passed! We have hired an extra person to:
1) send out these email alerts to you
2) make phone calls to RPCVs in Key Congressional Districts to enlist their support
3) make phone calls to the Congressional Staffers, just like what we are asking you to do
4) maintain contact among the RPCVs of the advocacy network--- nationwide
We need to pay this Extra Person (Britta) a salary and we have limited funds. Please, each of you, send $25 - $50 - $100 or more, today, made out to NPCA Advocacy Coalition (tax deductible) and send to
NPCA 1900 L St. NW Suite 205 Washington, DC 20036
Democracy is not a spectator sport. Thank you for your support!
GO PEACE CORPS!
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