LEGISLATIVE BULLETIN
CALL FOR ACTION!
The 105th Congress is off and running on several
fronts.
This notice deals with legislation to restore the linkage of
earnings limits which apply to blind persons and age-65
retirees
under the Social Security Act. At this point, a great deal
of
momentum appears to be building for members to get on board
in
support of the restoration bill. You can help by contacting
all
members of the House and Senate.
A bill to restore the earnings exemption linkage
was
introduced in the House of Representatives by Congresswoman
Barbara Kennelly. The bill is H.R. 612. There are 57
cosponsors
at present. That number should more than double quite soon
if
all of us work at making it happen. All members of the
House
should be contacted and urged to cosponsor H.R. 612, the
Earnings
Exemption for the Blind, Linkage Restoration bill.
A list of the current House cosponsors as of
February 12
follows this notice. The members who are most likely to
become
cosponsors quite soon are those who placed their names on
Mrs.
Kennelly's concurrent resolution--H.Con.Res. 23--in the
104th
Congress. That resolution declared that the linkage of
earnings
limits for the blind and seniors should be maintained.
Something over 170 members of the House were
cosponsors
ofH.Con.Res. 23. Several of them are among the cosponsors
of
H.R. 612 in the present session. Some are no longer in the
House. There are 105 members still serving, however, who
were
announced cosponsors last year. A list of these members
follows
the list of current cosponsors.
In the Senate, the principal sponsor of the linkage
restoration bill will be Senator John McCain of Arizona. He
is
expected to introduce his bill as a companion to Mrs.
Kennelly's
bill on February 24. There are 5 Senators who have already
decided to become original cosponsors. A list of those
Senators
appears after the two House lists already mentioned.
The Congress will be in a recess period from
February 14
through February 24. Most members will be in their
districts
during that time. They will hold town meetings and have
other
appointment times available. Their offices in Washington
and
back home will also still be open. This is a perfect time,
therefore, to make contacts on the earnings limit matter.
All Senators who have not already signed on with
Senator
McCain should be urged to do so before February 24 if
possible or
soon thereafter if not. All members of the House should be
urged
to sign on to Mrs. Kennelly's bill in the House if they are
not
among the 57 who have already done so. Those who have,
whether
in the House or Senate, should be thanked.
The time to do our work is now!
H.R. 612
COSPONSOR
LIST
105th
CONGRESS
(With telephone and fax numbers where available. Use prefix
of
202-22 for all telephone numbers.)
ALASKA
Rep. Don Young; 5-5765 Fax: 202-225-0425
CALIFORNIA
Rep. Sam Farr; 5-2861
Rep. Vic Fazio; 5-5716 Fax: 202-225-5141
Rep. Tom Lantos; 5-3531
Rep. Zoe Lofgren; 5-3072 Fax: 202-225-3336
Rep. Robert T. Matsui; 5-7163 Fax: 202-225-0566
CONNECTICUT
Rep. Rosa DeLauro; 5-3661
Rep. Sam. Gejdenson; 5-2076 Fax: 202-225-4977
Rep. James H. Maloney; 5-3822
Rep. Christopher Shays; 5-5541 Fax: 202-225-9629
FLORIDA
Rep. Carrie P. Meek; 5-4506 Fax: 202-226-0777
Rep. Cliff Stearns; 5-5744 Fax: 202-225-3973
GEORGIA
Rep. John Lewis; 5-3801 Fax: 202-225-0351
HAWAII
Rep. Neil Abercrombie; 5-2726
IOWA
Rep. Tom Latham; 5-5476 Fax: 202-225-3301
ILLINOIS
Rep. Rod R. Blagojevich; 5-4061
Rep. Danny K. Davis; 5-5006
Rep. Lane Evans; 5-5905 Fax: 202-225-5396
Rep. William O. Lipinski; 5-5701 Fax: 202-225-1012
MASSACHUSETTS
Rep. Barney Frank; 5-5931
Rep. James P. McGovern; 5-6101
Rep. Richard E. Neal; 5-5601 Fax: 202-225-8112
MARYLAND
Rep. Robert Ehrlich; 5-3061 Fax: 202-225-3094
MINNESOTA
Rep. James L. Oberstar; 5-6211 Fax: 202-225-0699
Rep. Bruce F. Vento; 5-6631 Fax: 202-225-1968
MISSOURI
Rep. Karen McCarthy; 5-4535
NORTH CAROLINA
Rep. Eva Clayton; 5-3101
Rep. W. G. (Bill) Hefner; 5-3715
NEBRASKA
Rep. Doug Bereuter; 5-4806
NEW JERSEY
Rep. Robert Menendez; 5-7919 Fax: 202-226-0792
Rep. Donald M. Payne; 5-3436 Fax: 202-225-4160
NEW YORK
Rep. Gary L. Ackerman; 5-2601
Rep. Maurice D. Hinchey; 5-6335
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney; 5-7944 Fax: 202-225-4709
Rep. Jose E. Serrano; 5-4361 Fax: 202-225-6001
Rep. Edolphus Towns; 5-5936 Fax: 202-225-1018
Rep. James T. Walsh; 5-3701 Fax: 202-225-4042
OHIO
Rep. Tony P. Hall; 5-6465
Rep. Marcy Kaptur; 5-4146 Fax: 202-225-7711
Rep. Bob Ney; 5-6265 Fax: 202-225-3394
Rep. Deborah Pryce; 5-2015
Rep. Tom Sawyer; 5-5231 Fax: 202-225-5278
Rep. James A. Traficant, Jr.; 5-5261 Fax: 202-225-3719
PENNSYLVANIA
Rep. William J. Coyne; 5-2301
Rep. Tim Holden; 5-5546 Fax: 202-226-0996
SOUTH CAROLINA
Rep. John M. Spratt, Jr.; 5-5501 Fax: 202-225-0464
TENNESSEE
Rep. Bob Clement; 5-4311
TEXAS
Rep. Martin Frost; 5-3605 Fax: 202-225-4951
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee; 5-3816
VIRGINIA
Rep. Rick Boucher; 5-3861 Fax: 202-225-0442
Rep. Thomas M. Davis; 5-1492 Fax: 202-225-3071
VERMONT
Rep. Bernard Sanders; 5-4115 Fax: 202-225-6790
WASHINGTON
Rep. Jim McDermott; 5-3106
Rep. Adam Smith; 5-8901
WISCONSIN
Rep. Gerald D. Kleczka; 5-4572 Fax: 202-225-8135
WEST VIRGINIA
Rep. Nick J. Rahall; 5-3452 Fax: 202-225-9061
COSPONSORS OF
H.CON.RES.23
104th
CONGRESS
(With telephone and fax numbers when available. Use prefix
of
202-22 for all telephone numbers.)
ARIZONA
Rep. Jay Dickey; 5-3772 Fax: 202-225-1314
Rep. J. D. Hayworth; 5-2190 Fax: 202-225-3263
Rep. Ed Pastor; 5-4065
Rep. Bob Stump; 5-4576 Fax: 202-225-6328
CALIFORNIA
Rep. George E. Brown; 5-6161
Rep. Ronald V. Dellums; 5-2661
Rep. Julian C. Dixon; 5-7084 Fax: 202-225-4091
Rep. Anna G. Eshoo; 5-8104
Rep. Bob Filner; 5-8045 Fax: 202-225-9073
Rep. Matthew G. Martinez; 5-5464 Fax: 202-225-5467
Rep. George Miller; 5-2095
Rep. Ron Packard; 5-3906 Fax: 202-225-0134
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard; 5-1766
Rep. Esteban E. Torres; 5-5256 Fax: 202-225-9711
Rep. Henry A. Waxman; 5-3976
Fax:
202-225-4099
Rep. Lynn Woolsey; 5-5161
CONNECTICUT
Rep. Nancy L. Johnson; 5-4476
Fax:
202-225-4488
FLORIDA
Rep. Corrine Brown; 5-0123 Fax:
202-225-2256
Rep. Peter Deutsch; 5-7931 Fax:
202-225-8456
Rep. Alcee L. Hastings; 5-1313
Fax:
202-226-0690
GEORGIA
Rep. Sanford D. Bishop; 5-3631
Fax:
202-226-3601
Rep. Nathan Deal; 5-5211
Rep. Cynthia A. McKinney; 5-1605
IOWA
Rep. Jim Leach; 5-6576 Fax: 202-226-1278
IDAHO
Rep. Helen Chenoweth; 5-6611 Fax:
202-225-3029
ILLINOIS
Rep. Jerry F. Costello; 5-5661
Fax:
202-225-0285
Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez; 5-8203
Fax:
202-225-7810
Rep. Ray LaHood; 5-6201 Fax: 202-225-9249
Rep. Sidney R. Yates; 5-2111 Fax:
202-225-3493
KENTUCKY
Rep. Scotty Baesler; 5-4706
LOUISIANA
Rep. Richard H. Baker; 5-3901
Rep. Robert L. Livingston; 5-3015
Fax:
202-225-0739
Rep. William J. Jefferson; 5-6636
MASSACHUSETTS
Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy, II; 5-5111
Fax: 202-225-9322
Rep. Edward J. Markey; 5-2836
Rep. John W. Olver; 5-5335 Fax:
202-226-1224
MARYLAND
Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest; 5-5311
Fax:
202-225-0254
Rep. Constance A. Morella; 5-5341
Fax:
202-225-1389
Rep. Albert R. Wynn; 5-8699 Fax:
202-225-8714
MAINE
Rep. John Baldacci; 5-6306 Fax:
202-225-2943
MICHIGAN
Rep. David E. Bonior; 5-2106 Fax:
202-226-1169
Sen Carl Levin 4-6221 Fax: 202-224-1388
Rep. Dale E. Kildee; 5-3611
Rep. Lynn Nancy Rivers; 5-6261
Fax:
202-225-3404
Rep. Bart Stupak; 5-4735 Fax:
202-225-4744
MINNESOTA
Rep. Gil Gutknecht; 5-2472
Rep. William P. (Bill) Luther; 5-2271
Fax: 202-225-3368
Rep. David Minge; 5-2331
Rep. Collin C. Peterson; 5-2165
MISSOURI
Rep. Ike Skelton; 5-2876
MISSISSIPPI
Rep. Mike Parker; 5-5865 Fax:
202-225-5886
Rep. Gene Taylor; 5-5772
Rep. Bennie Thompson; 5-5876 Fax:
202-225-5878
NORTH CAROLINA
Rep. Melvin Watt; 5-1510 Fax:
202-225-1512
NEBRASKA
Rep. Bill Barrett; 5-6435
NEW JERSEY
Rep. Frank Pallone Jr.; 5-4671
Fax:
202-225-9665
Rep. Christopher H. Smith; 5-3765
NEW MEXICO
Rep. Joe Skeen; 5-2365 Fax: 202-225-9599
NEW YORK
Rep. Sherwood Boehlert; 5-3665
Fax:
202-225-1891
Rep. Eliot L. Engel; 5-2464
Rep. Benjamin A. Gilman; 5-3776
Rep. Sue Kelly; 5-5441 Fax: 202-225-3289
Rep. Peter T. King; 5-7896 Fax:
202-226-2279
Rep. Thomas J. Manton; 5-3965
Fax:
202-225-1909
Rep. Susan Molinari; 5-3371 Fax:
202-226-1272
Rep. Jerrold Nadler; 5-5635 Fax:
202-225-6923
Rep. Charles B. Rangel; 5-4365
Fax:
202-225-0816
Rep. Charles E. Schumer; 5-6616
Fax:
202-225-4183
Rep. Nydia M. Velazquez; 5-2361
Fax:
202-226-0327
OHIO
Rep. Sherrod Brown; 5-3401 Fax:
202-225-2266
Rep. Paul E. Gillmor; 5-6405
Rep. Steven C. LaTourette; 5-5731
Fax:
202-225-3307
Rep. Ralph Regula; 5-3876 Fax:
202-225-3059
Rep. Louis Stokes; 5-7032 Fax:
202-225-1339
OREGON
Rep. Elizabeth Furse; 5-0855 Fax:
202-225-9497
Rep. Peter A. DeFazio; 5-6416
PENNSYLVANIA
Rep. Robert A. Borski; 5-8251
Fax:
202-225-4628
Rep. Chaka Fattah; 5-4001
Rep. Thomas M. Foglietta; 5-4731
Fax:
202-225-0088
Rep. Jon D. Fox; 5-6111 Fax: 202-225-3155
Rep. Frank R. Mascara; 5-4665
Fax:
202-225-3377
Rep. John P. Murtha; 5-2065
RHODE ISLAND
Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy; 5-4911
Fax:
202-225-3290
SOUTH CAROLINA
Rep. James E. Clyburn; 5-3315
Fax:
202-225-2313
Rep. Lindsey Graham; 5-5301
Rep. Bob Inglis; 5-6030 Fax: 202-226-1177
Rep. Floyd D. Spence; 5-2452 Fax:
202-225-2455
TENNESSEE
Rep. John Tanner; 5-4714 Fax:
202-225-1765
TEXAS
Rep. Ken Bentsen; 5-7508 Fax:
202-225-2947
Rep. Chet Edwards; 5-6105 Fax:
202-225-0350
Rep. Gene Green; 5-1688 Fax: 202-225-9903
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson; 5-8885
Fax: 202-226-1477
UTAH
Rep. James V. Hansen; 5-0453 Fax:
202-225-5857
VIRGINIA
Rep. James P. Moran; 5-4376 Fax:
202-225-0017
WASHINGTON
Rep. Jennifer Dunn; 5-7761
Rep. Richard (Doc) Hastings; 5-5816
Fax: 202-225-3251
Rep. Jack Metcalf; 5-2605 Fax:
202-225-4420
Rep. George Nethercutt; 5-2006
Rep. Linda Smith; 5-3536 Fax:
202-225-3478
WISCONSIN
Rep. Thomas M. Barrett; 5-3571
Rep. Tom Petri; 5-2476 Fax: 202-225-2356
Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner; 5-5101
Fax: 202-225-3190
WEST VIRGINIA
Rep. Alan B. Mollohan; 5-4172
Fax:
202-225-7564
Rep. Bob Wise; 5-2711 Fax: 202-225-7856
SENATE COSPONSORS OF EARNINGS LIMIT RESTORATION BILL
105th CONGRESS
(With telephone and fax numbers)
CONNECTICUT
Sen. Christopher Dodd; 202-224-2823 Fax: 202-224-7475
ILLINOIS
Sen. Richard J. Durbin; 202-224-2152 Fax: 202-224-0868
KANSAS
Sen. Pat Roberts; 202-224-4774 Fax: 202-224-3514
KENTUCKY
Sen. Wendell Ford; 202-224-4343 Fax: 202-224-0046
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Sen. Judd Gregg; 202-224-3324 Fax: 202-224-4952
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