• ACTION NEEDED NOW: Please phone your Representative and both of your Senators immediately. If you cannot telephone, send e-mails or faxes.

• Tell them that you are a constituent and explain your connection to the Peace Corps (returned Peace Corps volunteer, former Peace Corps staff, Peace Corps parent, friend, etc.)

• Say that you are aware that they are about to vote on the Fiscal Year 2004 foreign operations appropriations bill.

• Ask them to support President Bush's request for $359 million for the Peace Corps in FY2004.

• Say that you support the President's initiative, announced in his 2002 State of the Union speech, to double the number of Peace Corps volunteers within five years. If that goal is to be met, it is crucial to achieve full funding of the President's FY2004 budget request for the Peace Corps.

• House of Representatives: http://www.house.gov

• Senate: http://www.senate.gov

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• Disaster ahead for RPCVs Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - 11:20 am [1]

I will be calling the Congress about the recent safety and health issues. I will be suggesting hearings. Daniel