| By Admin1 (admin) on Friday, February 21, 2003 - 9:00 pm: Edit Post |
The New Mandate Group and the NPCA ask for support for HR 250
a. reinforcing the independence of the Peace Corps
b. doubling the size and funding of Peace Corps over five years
c. creating an independent Innovation Fund for RPCV projects
d. a new Advisory Council to the Peace CorpsOur goals are to get legislation passed in the House of Representatives with these four provisions and to call on the Peace Corps Director, Gaddi Vasquez, to take a unified stand with RPCVs in support of all these provisions.
1. Please, contact your Representative by email or fax. An easy way to send an email is to go to www.house.gov/writerep, and follow instructions. Tell him/her in your own words that you are asking him/her to co-sponsor HR 250, The Peace Corps Charter for the 21st Century Act, and also asking for support of full funding authorized in HR 250.
2. Ask Gaddi Vasquez, Peace Corps Director, to take a unified stand with RPCVs in support of the provisions in HR 250. Unity by the Peace Corps leadership and RPCVs is the best way to achieve our common goals, including the full funding authorized in HR 250. Be polite! Director Vasquez can be emailed c/o his Director for Congressional Relations, Marie Wheat, at <mwheat@peacecorps.gov>We need 100 or more co-sponsors of HR 250 by 4-1-03. Please make a commitment to getting your Representative to co-sponsor this legislation. Ask other RPCVs or friends in your Congressional District to make the same request until your Representative agrees to co-sponsor HR 250.
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