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*Update 3/18/11* New Action Needed by 99ers to help pass H.R. 589!
by Carol in CA Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:10 am
First topic message reminder :
Dear 99ers:
There are currently 75 Democrat co-sponsors of H.R. 589.
And not one Republican has committed to co-sponsor this bill.
Yet in the House of Representatives there are 193 Democrats and 242 Republicans.
So 75 Democrat cosponsors is a drop in the bucket.
So besides contacting our Republican representatives we need to still work on the Democrats as well.
This is our one chance to get extended unemployment benefits for the 99ers.
Lets not blow this chance.
Lets put every effort into contacting both our Democrat and Republican Congressmen and urge them to cosponsor this bill.
And don't forget the Speaker of the House Boehner. www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml
Remember Reps Barbara Lee and Bobby Scott requested our help to get their bill passed in the House.
Once it passes the House and goes to the Senate it will be a whole new ball game there with the Democrats in the majority in the Senate.
The hardest battle is getting support for this bill in the House were the majority are Republicans.
So please keep contacting your Congressmen.
We must not let up if we want to win this fight for unemployment benefits.
Below is the link to the site that lists the contact info for every Congressman.
Member Web Site Listing (by State) - United States House of ... United States House of Representatives. return to welcome page. 112th Congress, 1st Session Washington, DC 20515 | (202) 224-3121 | TTY: (202) 225-1904 ...
www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml - Cached - Similar
Dear 99ers:
There are currently 75 Democrat co-sponsors of H.R. 589.
And not one Republican has committed to co-sponsor this bill.
Yet in the House of Representatives there are 193 Democrats and 242 Republicans.
So 75 Democrat cosponsors is a drop in the bucket.
So besides contacting our Republican representatives we need to still work on the Democrats as well.
This is our one chance to get extended unemployment benefits for the 99ers.
Lets not blow this chance.
Lets put every effort into contacting both our Democrat and Republican Congressmen and urge them to cosponsor this bill.
And don't forget the Speaker of the House Boehner. www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml
Remember Reps Barbara Lee and Bobby Scott requested our help to get their bill passed in the House.
Once it passes the House and goes to the Senate it will be a whole new ball game there with the Democrats in the majority in the Senate.
The hardest battle is getting support for this bill in the House were the majority are Republicans.
So please keep contacting your Congressmen.
We must not let up if we want to win this fight for unemployment benefits.
Below is the link to the site that lists the contact info for every Congressman.
Member Web Site Listing (by State) - United States House of ... United States House of Representatives. return to welcome page. 112th Congress, 1st Session Washington, DC 20515 | (202) 224-3121 | TTY: (202) 225-1904 ...
www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml - Cached - Similar
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Re: *Update 3/18/11* New Action Needed by 99ers to help pass H.R. 589!
by Guest Sun Mar 20, 2011 6:25 pm
Please all help. We can't stop now. 
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Re: *Update 3/18/11* New Action Needed by 99ers to help pass H.R. 589!
by Nuwanda Sun Mar 20, 2011 7:30 pm
I want to help more. Can anyone give me some suggestions or point me in the right direction? I have contacted members of the senate in the past but honestly I got sick of not getting a response and have not done as much as I should.
Can anyone offer me some tips or more info on what I can do.
Can anyone offer me some tips or more info on what I can do.
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Re: *Update 3/18/11* New Action Needed by 99ers to help pass H.R. 589!
by Guest Sun Mar 20, 2011 7:38 pm
Nuwanda, thanks for asking. We need all members to keep contacting the Democratic Reps. asking for additional co-sponsors. We need all members to continue emailing, faxing and tweeting the Republicans as well. Tell them your story, send the 99ers letter (please sign if you haven't already), join the 99ers union and send a copy of their letter.
This is not the time for us to quiet down. We only have each other to get this done. As Gregg and Carol get more information they will post.
We know it's a lot to ask of everyone, since we have been doing it for so long, but we HAVE to keep up the pressure. It's just too damn important.
We need benefits, we need JOBS, we need Job Creation (the real kind) and we need an end to the discrimination in hiring practices.
Please, please all, join us.
Nuwanda, see the HR589 Threads, there you will find the information you need to get you going. If you have any questions, please just ask me or any of the Moderators and Admins.
This is not the time for us to quiet down. We only have each other to get this done. As Gregg and Carol get more information they will post.
We know it's a lot to ask of everyone, since we have been doing it for so long, but we HAVE to keep up the pressure. It's just too damn important.
We need benefits, we need JOBS, we need Job Creation (the real kind) and we need an end to the discrimination in hiring practices.
Please, please all, join us.
Nuwanda, see the HR589 Threads, there you will find the information you need to get you going. If you have any questions, please just ask me or any of the Moderators and Admins.
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Re: *Update 3/18/11* New Action Needed by 99ers to help pass H.R. 589!
by Guest Sun Mar 20, 2011 7:58 pm
Hi Nuwanda, to add what Mary Kay has put forth...
I'm not the authority as others are on this site, but I would suggest a
set of standard questions, similar to what we've been talking about earlier in
this thread. These questions would be to interview in a brief period of time and would be tailored to the individual's stance - such as co-sponsoring Dems, Dems still to enlist, Rep. Lee, Repubs, President Obama, AND REP. CAMP for sure.
Using these questions and the answers we receive, we can post who we talked to and their responses. I think this would be very interesting to determine what's going on right now and for once we can determine where we stand... or where they don't stand.
We should also be prepared to provide perhaps the top 10 positive actions we individually would do with this additional 14 weeks and how these actions would be different than the past. Very short but personal.
Sorry I have to buzz off to do a job submit and my head is bursting and I'm seeing double!
Other members, I hope you will address the strategies provided here so we can be most equipped and unified as a team.
Thanks... Jaxxy
I'm not the authority as others are on this site, but I would suggest a
set of standard questions, similar to what we've been talking about earlier in
this thread. These questions would be to interview in a brief period of time and would be tailored to the individual's stance - such as co-sponsoring Dems, Dems still to enlist, Rep. Lee, Repubs, President Obama, AND REP. CAMP for sure.
Using these questions and the answers we receive, we can post who we talked to and their responses. I think this would be very interesting to determine what's going on right now and for once we can determine where we stand... or where they don't stand.
We should also be prepared to provide perhaps the top 10 positive actions we individually would do with this additional 14 weeks and how these actions would be different than the past. Very short but personal.
Sorry I have to buzz off to do a job submit and my head is bursting and I'm seeing double!
Other members, I hope you will address the strategies provided here so we can be most equipped and unified as a team.
Thanks... Jaxxy
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Re: *Update 3/18/11* New Action Needed by 99ers to help pass H.R. 589!
by Guest Sun Mar 20, 2011 8:19 pm
p.s. It would be great to see some quick brainstorming tonight so that an action plan can be formed to make best use of this coming week. Don't be shy! 
The milestone for next week is to flush this bill back out to the forefront and have our Congress on high alert when they return to Washington. We all have our different circumstances but as a team we have this one very important milestone to achieve.
Let's do it!
Thanks.
The milestone for next week is to flush this bill back out to the forefront and have our Congress on high alert when they return to Washington. We all have our different circumstances but as a team we have this one very important milestone to achieve.
Let's do it!
Thanks.
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Re: *Update 3/18/11* New Action Needed by 99ers to help pass H.R. 589!
by Guest Sun Mar 20, 2011 9:20 pm
First, I think we need to contact all the Democrats not yet signed up to co-sponsor, as as stated above, if they won't, why. This would require phone calls more than an email request. I think the emails should continue however.
Next we contact the Republicans, we need their support as well. Same idea, will you sponsor, if not why.
I also think, due to budget cut backs and limited funds now coming to the states, the Governor's are who we need to hit as well.
Also, Secretary of Labor for each state. Sandy Vito in PA has been on our side since early March last year and has been vocal in PA. Contact your Secretary, send your story.
That's where I would start.
Next we contact the Republicans, we need their support as well. Same idea, will you sponsor, if not why.
I also think, due to budget cut backs and limited funds now coming to the states, the Governor's are who we need to hit as well.
Also, Secretary of Labor for each state. Sandy Vito in PA has been on our side since early March last year and has been vocal in PA. Contact your Secretary, send your story.
That's where I would start.
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Re: *Update 3/18/11* New Action Needed by 99ers to help pass H.R. 589!
by Guest Sun Mar 20, 2011 10:08 pm
MaryKay wrote:First, I think we need to contact all the Democrats not yet signed up to co-sponsor, as as stated above, if they won't, why. This would require phone calls more than an email request. I think the emails should continue however.
Next we contact the Republicans, we need their support as well. Same idea, will you sponsor, if not why.
I also think, due to budget cut backs and limited funds now coming to the states, the Governor's are who we need to hit as well.
Also, Secretary of Labor for each state. Sandy Vito in PA has been on our side since early March last year and has been vocal in PA. Contact your Secretary, send your story.
That's where I would start.
MaryKay, I really like your prioritization. Can I just suggest one insert, hopefully as the very first contact. Unless I'm off base, contacting Rep. Camp might shed some light or give us answers that we can relay to the Democrats... such as "did you know the reason why the meeting hasn't taken place? According to Rep. Camp, it's because...."
Rep. Camp, why have you not responded to Rep. Lee?
Rep. Camp, what date can we expect your response to Rep. Lee?
Rep. Camp, is someone holding you back from this response or is this
lack of response entirely your decision and do you know what daily
consequences this lack of duty has had?
Rep. Camp, what criteria do you use to determine the swiftness of your responses?
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Re: *Update 3/18/11* New Action Needed by 99ers to help pass H.R. 589!
by Guest Mon Mar 21, 2011 12:31 am
Yes indeed, flood the telecom circuits! I was just talking to a well known "friend of the unemployed" and he said that volume does really seem to be the suggested approach from Sen. Lee.
So DesperateInRI has put out the info... let's do any and everything to get this baby on it's feet!
I'm tired. Good night!
So DesperateInRI has put out the info... let's do any and everything to get this baby on it's feet!
I'm tired. Good night!
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Re: *Update 3/18/11* New Action Needed by 99ers to help pass H.R. 589!
by Guest Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:58 am
I find that to be the case X...even though it may not seem like much, faxing,tweeting etc., It really does speak volumes. The more phone calls and faxes they get, the more likely they are to do something.
We cant afford to rally together from all over the country so this is the next best thing IMO. Its better than doing nothing!!
We cant afford to rally together from all over the country so this is the next best thing IMO. Its better than doing nothing!!
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Re: *Update 3/18/11* New Action Needed by 99ers to help pass H.R. 589!
by Guest Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:16 am
Thanks S&T. And I sure hope members take these actions this week!
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Re: *Update 3/18/11* New Action Needed by 99ers to help pass H.R. 589!
by Guest Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:37 am
Thanks X and S&T for all your continued help. I started about an hour ago.
I feel right now that any and all suggestions are a good thing. I also feel we need to contact Camp. He is included in my emails to the entire Ways and Means.
Please include your stories, any other correspondence you feel you want to include and if you wish, help me with the letter.
I am also stressing in these emails and faxes and phones calls what organizations we belong to. We need them to see us as individuals and as the large group we sadly have become.
With the lack of coverage and feed-back we are receiving right now, I think the press needs to be contacted again. If you have time, include them in your daily correspondence, even if it's just your local tv stations, radio stations and your favorite National News coverage. If we each do a little, the word is getting out.
With emotions running so high right now and this battle of ours dragging on so long, it would be easy to give in to taking a demanding tone or bashing, please make sure your correspondence is written with the respect we expect to receive. We are the bigger people and we need to reflect that, as hard as it may be.
Back to the emails. Thanks everyone for continuing on, we need to, it's our lives and the lives of our loved ones depending on this.
Prayers for all of us, the unemployed, the 99ers and all people who need help right now around the world.
I feel right now that any and all suggestions are a good thing. I also feel we need to contact Camp. He is included in my emails to the entire Ways and Means.
Please include your stories, any other correspondence you feel you want to include and if you wish, help me with the letter.
I am also stressing in these emails and faxes and phones calls what organizations we belong to. We need them to see us as individuals and as the large group we sadly have become.
With the lack of coverage and feed-back we are receiving right now, I think the press needs to be contacted again. If you have time, include them in your daily correspondence, even if it's just your local tv stations, radio stations and your favorite National News coverage. If we each do a little, the word is getting out.
With emotions running so high right now and this battle of ours dragging on so long, it would be easy to give in to taking a demanding tone or bashing, please make sure your correspondence is written with the respect we expect to receive. We are the bigger people and we need to reflect that, as hard as it may be.
Back to the emails. Thanks everyone for continuing on, we need to, it's our lives and the lives of our loved ones depending on this.
Prayers for all of us, the unemployed, the 99ers and all people who need help right now around the world.
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Re: *Update 3/18/11* New Action Needed by 99ers to help pass H.R. 589!
by gettheminNOVEMBER Mon Mar 21, 2011 12:13 pm
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Re: *Update 3/18/11* New Action Needed by 99ers to help pass H.R. 589!
by Guest Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:40 pm
Democrats and Ways and Means all emailed.
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Re: *Update 3/18/11* New Action Needed by 99ers to help pass H.R. 589!
by Guest Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:57 pm
DesperateInRI wrote:HR 589 Emergency Unemployment Compensation Expansion Act of 2011
Sponsor: Representative Barbara Lee [D-CA]
Co-Sponsors: 75
Referred to the House Ways & Means Committee February 9, 2011
To amend title IV of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 to provide for additional weeks of first-tier emergency unemployment compensation, and for other purposes
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/bills/?billtype=H.R.&billnumb=589&congress=112
_________________________________________________________________________________________
Use our Congress.org widget to find your Senators and Representatives! Just type in your zipcode and all the contact information you need will be available!
Make your voice heard - click on the Pop Vox widget and vote! Legislators and their aides use this tool to listen to what their constituents want!
The number of Co-sponsors is now at 75 - contact your Republican Reps and tell them to sign on!
We will not be forgotten again! Keep contacting today, tomorrow and until they bring it to the Floor!
_________________________________________________________________________________________
Contact Information for Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Cantor
Speaker John Boehner:
http://www.speaker.gov/Contact/
Leader Eric Cantor:
http://www.majorityleader.gov/Contact/
Other important contact information for HR 589 - Make your voices heard!
http://www.democraticleader.gov/contact Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader
www.House.gov
www.senate.gov
www.whitehouse.gov
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/Contact/
Congress on Twitter:
http://www.arrghpaine.com/house-reps-on-twitter
also....
@SpeakerBoehner John Boehner
@GOPLeader Eric Cantor
@BarackObama President Obama
@NancyPelosi Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
@WhipHoyer Minority Whip Steny Hoyer
Contact David Camp, Chairman of the Ways & Means Committee at:
http://camp.house.gov/Contact/
You can use the following cities and zip codes:
Traverse City, MI 49684 - 2299 (If address is needed: 121 East Front St.)
Midland, MI 48640 -5105 (If address is needed: 135 Ashman St.)
Republican Representatives from 4 of the 5 States with the Highest Unemployment Rates:
**RI is in the Top 5 - Both Reps are Democrats**
http://www.gop.gov/member/dean-heller
http://www.gop.gov/contact/members/CA
http://www.gop.gov/contact/members/FL
http://www.gop.gov/contact/members/MI
Information and Articles regarding HR 589 from the Crew of 42
http://www.crewof42.com/?p=4399
http://www.crewof42.com/?p=4962
http://lee.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=57&parentid=35§iontree=&itemid=23073
http://www.crewof42.com/?p=4447
http://www.crewof42.com/?p=4878
Additional Information:
See this thread for the current list of HR 589 Co-sponsors:
http://www.unemployed-friends2.org/t181p60-99ers-need-your-help-today-tommorrow-and-until-hr589-is-passed#5276
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/bills/?billtype=H.R.&billnumb=589&congress=
Visit your Representative in their District Office this week!
Tell them to support H.R. 589 until those "Jobs" are created!
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Re: *Update 3/18/11* New Action Needed by 99ers to help pass H.R. 589!
by lizalphonso Tue Mar 22, 2011 5:48 am
Is anyone getting any positive responses or feedback? All I seem to get are form letters that don't really address the issue.
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Re: *Update 3/18/11* New Action Needed by 99ers to help pass H.R. 589!
by Kathy Tue Mar 22, 2011 10:25 am
Yeah, you just gotta love those form letters! I wish just one politician would send a real letter telling the truth of the situation even if it said "I really dont know the answer".
These form letters are so cold and so phony. I just want something real and written with genuine emotions.
These form letters are so cold and so phony. I just want something real and written with genuine emotions.
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Re: *Update 3/18/11* New Action Needed by 99ers to help pass H.R. 589!
by Guest Tue Mar 22, 2011 11:52 am
I think the form letters are almost an auto-response. But I am working the Republicans today. Speaker Boehner asked all to "tout job creation" so I am working that side of the aisle. Please join me.
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Re: *Update 3/18/11* New Action Needed by 99ers to help pass H.R. 589!
by tiffg2011 Tue Mar 22, 2011 1:04 pm
keep up the work and positivity!!!!!!
This just in: GOP leaders agree to meet with Dems to discuss bill for long-term unemployed:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/22/99ers-bill-meeting-long-term-unemployed_n_838970.html
This just in: GOP leaders agree to meet with Dems to discuss bill for long-term unemployed:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/22/99ers-bill-meeting-long-term-unemployed_n_838970.html
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Re: *Update 3/18/11* New Action Needed by 99ers to help pass H.R. 589!
by Guest Tue Mar 22, 2011 1:09 pm
Thank you! I am going to start a new thread to spread the good news!!!!!!!
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Re: *Update 3/18/11* New Action Needed by 99ers to help pass H.R. 589!
by tiffg2011 Tue Mar 22, 2011 1:27 pm
DesperateInRI wrote:
awesome!! your welcome!!! together we are one!!!
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Re: *Update 3/18/11* New Action Needed by 99ers to help pass H.R. 589!
by Guest Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:32 pm
Please all, keep emailing, calling, faxing and tweeting. Don't give up, get loud, type fast. This is really when we should flood them with every piece of information we can give them on our current situation.
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Re: *Update 3/18/11* New Action Needed by 99ers to help pass H.R. 589!
by gettheminNOVEMBER Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:29 pm
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Re: *Update 3/18/11* New Action Needed by 99ers to help pass H.R. 589!
by rainer123 Tue Mar 22, 2011 5:29 pm
News of the meeting is now posted on the Crew of 42 website 
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Re: *Update 3/18/11* New Action Needed by 99ers to help pass H.R. 589!
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Re: *Update 3/18/11* New Action Needed by 99ers to help pass H.R. 589!
by Nuwanda Tue Mar 22, 2011 6:47 pm
MaryKay wrote:Please all, keep emailing, calling, faxing and tweeting. Don't give up, get loud, type fast. This is really when we should flood them with every piece of information we can give them on our current situation.
Sounds like they may be listening. I have been using the letter you guys have posted here, I think its great and spells it all out.
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