Wednesday, July 30, 2014

A vote on the ABLE Act is close - we need your help today Wednesday 7/30!

URGENT Action Alert
House Ways & Means Committee to Hold Markup on the
Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act (S. 313/H.R. 647)

Advocates:

On Thursday, July 31, the House Ways & Means Committee will markup the Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act (S. 313/H.R. 647)! We need your help to ensure the ABLE Act moves through the Committee process and to the House floor for a vote as quickly as possible.

Action Needed Immediately:

Please take a few minutes and contact Members of the House Ways & Means Committee to encourage all Members vote YES during Thursday's Markup on the ABLE Act. The contact information for each House Ways & Means Committee Members' office can be found below.
 
Phone
Facebook
Twitter
Dave Camp, MI Chairman
Sam Johnson, TX
Kevin Brady, TX
Paul Ryan, WI
Devin Nunes, CA
Pat Tiberi, OH
Dave G. Reichert, WA
Charles W. Boustany Jr., LA
Peter J. Roskam, IL
Jim Gerlach, PA
Tom Price, GA
Vern Buchanan, FL
Adrian Smith, NE
202-225-6435
Aaron Schock, IL
202-225-6201
Lynn Jenkins, KS
202-225-6601
Erik Paulsen, MN
202-225-2871
Kenny Marchant, TX
202-225-6605
Diane Black, TN
202-225-4231
Tom Reed, NY
202-225-3161
Tim Griffin, AR
202-225-2506
Mike Kelly, PA
202-225-5406
Todd Young, IN
202-225-5315
Jim Renacci, OH
202-225-3876
Minority Members
Phone
Facebook
Twitter
Sander M. Levin, MI Ranking Member
202-225-3876
Charles B. Rangel, NY
202-225-4365
Jim McDermott, WA
202-225-3106
John Lewis, GA
202-225-3801
Richard E. Neal, MA
202-225-5601
Xavier Becerra, CA
202-225-6235
Lloyd Doggett, TX
202-225-4865
Mike Thompson, CA
202-225-3311
John B. Larson, CT
202-225-2265
Earl Blumenauer, OR
202-225-4811
Ron Kind, WI
202-225-5506
Bill Pascrell Jr., NJ
202-225-5751
Joseph Crowley, NY
202-225-3965
Allyson Schwartz, PA
202-225-6111
Danny Davis, IL
202-225-5006
Linda Sanchez, CA
202-225-6676


Ways & Means Committee Call Script:
  • As a constituent, I am calling to urge Congressman/woman [insert name] to vote YES during the House Ways & Means Committee markup on the ABLE Act (Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act) on Thursday.
    This bill is extremely important to my family - The ABLE Act is the most popular bill in Congress right now and has earned the support of almost 85% of the entire Congress.
  • The ABLE Act has 74 Senators and 370 Representatives cosponsoring the bill.
  • The ABLE Act would give people with disabilities and their families an ability to save for the future by establishing a tax-free 529 savings account for necessary expenses like housing, transportation, education, and medical costs associated with the disability.
  • Thank you sincerely for your boss' leadership in helping us bring the ABLE Act up for a vote. We appreciate your boss' support and commitment to the ABLE Act.

Social Media Advocacy:

We are encouraging advocates to Facebook/Tweet Members of the House Ways & Means Committee to demonstrate the overwhelming bipartisan support for the ABLE Act. We've included two sample FB/T messages along with direct links to each Member's Facebook and Twitter handles.

Sample Facebook Post

Congressman/woman [insert last name], as your constituent, I am writing to urge you to vote YES during Thursday's House Ways & Means Committee markup on the Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act (S. 313/H.R. 647).

The ABLE Act has the support of almost 85% of the entire Congress, and would establish a tax-free 529 savings account for people with disabilities to save for necessary expenses like housing, transportation, education, and medical costs associated with the disability. The bill has 74 Senators and 370 Representatives cosponsoring the bill!

Please help us #passtheABLEact this year! We appreciate your support!

Sample Tweet

.@RepDaveCamp please help millions of Americans with disabilities & vote YES to mark up of #PasstheABLEAct! @WaysandMeansGOP @WaysMeansCmte 

85% of Congress agrees, #passtheABLEact. Vote YES in the #ABLEact markup!

If you have any questions, please contact Ginny Sessions at: gsessions@ndss.org.Thank you for helping us #passtheABLEact; and as Sara Wolff said in her testimony last week, this year!

Sincerely,
Sara Hart Weir

For more information on the ABLE Act, please visit: http://www.ndss.org/Advocacy/Legislative-Agenda/Creating-an-Economic-Future-for-Individuals-with-Down-Syndrome/Achieving-a-Better-of-Life-Experience-ABLE-Act/

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