[sasi] Fw: [announce] Immediate Action Alert re HR 3101! Act today!

Sun Jul 18 19:45:04 GMT 2010

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From: Eric Bridges 
To: leadership at acb.org ; announce at acb.org 
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 3:09 PM
Subject: [announce] Immediate Action Alert re HR 3101! Act today!

Below is an Action Alert that the COAT Steering committee has developed in the lead up to the full committee markup of H.R.3101 on Wednesday of this week. 

The first 3 issues listed deal specifically with blind or deaf-blind issues. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. If you have a good discussion with the members office and think it would be helpful for me to follow-up, please feel free to contact me. 

Eric   

ACTION ALERT: "21st Century Communications & Video Accessibility Act" H.R. 3101 

This month, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) will be 20 years old.  

This week, we expect the House Committee on Energy and Commerce will consider H.R. 3101.  This is our opportunity to convince Congress that advanced communications and video programming equipment and services must be accessible. H.R. 3101 must make new technologies accessible.

Contact the members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. List of Members is below the message.

If you contacted them before, contact them again!

Tell them if you live in their district or their state.

Tell them if you represent an organization in their state.

Tell them if you represent a national organization of people in every state.

None of the above?  Contact them anyway!

Here's what you need to do:

Call or fax the members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee now (list below) and/or send e-mail messages through the members' websites available at http://www.house.gov.

Tell the House Committee members the following message:

"Re:  The Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (H.R. 3101)

H.R. 3101 must be as strong as possible to ensure that advanced communications and video programming are accessible to ALL Americans!

  1.. Restore financial support for communications equipment for people who are deaf-blind. 
  2.. Make sure that people who are blind or visually impaired can get to the Internet when it is available on mobile, handheld, or other devices. 
  3.. Do not prohibit the FCC from making video programming on television accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired.  Do not limit video description to 7 hours per week on 9 channels.  Give the FCC authority to increase accessibility when providing video description is not economically burdensome. 
  4.. Require closed captioning on video programming distributed by broadcast, cable, satellite, or the Internet.  Strike the closed captioning limitation to video programming 'first published or exhibited on television.' 
 Your name and address."

Contact the House Committee members today!

House Committee on Energy and Commerce 
(in alphabetical order by State)

Parker Griffith (R-AL-5)
202-225-4801 Phone
202-225-4392 Fax

Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA-14)
202-225-8104 Phone
202-225-8890 Fax

George Radanovich (R-CA-19)
202-225-4540 Phone
202-225-3402 Fax

Henry Waxman, Chair (D-CA-30)
202-225-3976 Phone
202-225-4099 Fax

Mary Bono Mack (R-CA-45)
202-225-5330 Phone
202-225-2961 Fax

Christopher S. Murphy (D-CT-5)
202-225-4476 Phone
202-225-5933 Fax

Cliff Stearns (R-FL-6)
202-225-5744 Phone
202-225-3973 Fax

John Shimkus (R-IL-19)
202-225-5271 Phone
202-225-5880 Fax

Baron P. Hill (D-IN-9)
202-225-5315 Phone
202-225-6866 Fax

Charlie Melancon (D-LA-3)
202-225-4031 Phone
202-225-3354 Fax

Bart Stupak (D-MI-1)
202-225 4735 Phone
202-225-4744 Fax

Fred Upton (R-MI-6)
202-225-3761 Phone
202-225-4986 Fax

Mike Rogers (R-MI-8)
202-225-4872 Phone
202-225-5820 Fax

Roy Blunt, Deputy Ranking Member (R-MO-7)
202-225-6536 Phone
202-225-5604 Fax

Lee Terry (R-NE-2)
202-225-4155 Phone
202-225-5452 Fax

G. K. Butterfield (D-NC-1)
202-225-3101 Phone
202-225-3354 Fax

Robert E. Latta (R-OH-5)
202-225-6405 Phone
800-278-8203 Fax

Zachary T. Space (D-OH-18)
202-225-6265 Phone
202-225-3394 Fax

Bart Gordon (D-TN-6)
202-225-4231 Phone
202-225-6687 Fax

Marsha Blackburn (R-TN-7)
202-225-2811 Phone
202-225-3002 Fax

Joe Barton, Ranking Member (R-TX-6)
202-225-2002 Phone
202-225-3052 Fax

Rick Boucher (D-VA-9)
202-225-3861 Phone
202-225-0442 Fax

Peter Welch (D-VT-AL)
202-225-4115 Phone
202-225-6790 Fax 

 END

Jenifer Simpson
Senior Director for Government Affairs
American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD)
Washington, DC SA

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