[Oasfaa] FW: NASFAA Action Item: Urge Your Representative To Overturn Education Spending Bill Veto

[Mc Conahay, Pamela K.]

As a member of the NASFAA Federal Issues Committee, I strongly urge you to make your views known to your Congressional representatives.   As mentioned below, this is especially important if your representative in Congress voted against it, but there were also 17 members of Congress who didn't vote, just about evenly divided between parties.  It's important to get them to vote yes as well.

Of the Oklahoma House delegation, all 4 Republicans voted NO and Dan Boren did not vote.

This is important, every e-mail, call, fax, etc, helps.  I don't know if the links to each representative's website will stay intact when I forward this message, so if you need to find their contact information, use this URL to go to the directory of House members:  http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/index.html

Representative

Party

Hometown

01

John Sullivan <http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/mem_contact_info.html?statdis=OK01>

R

Tulsa

02

Dan Boren <http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/mem_contact_info.html?statdis=OK02>

D

Paden

03

Frank D. Lucas <http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/mem_contact_info.html?statdis=OK03>

R

Cheyenne

04

Tom Cole <http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/mem_contact_info.html?statdis=OK04>

R

Moore

05

Mary Fallin <http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/mem_contact_info.html?statdis=OK05>

R

Oklahoma City


Pam McConahay
Associate Director, University of Oklahoma
pmcconahay at ou.edu
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

NASFAA ACTION ITEM

Urge Your Representative To Overturn Education Spending Bill Veto <http://www.nasfaa.org/NewsLetters/Daily/2007/ghousevetovote111407.html>

NASFAA urges all members to immediately contact their Representatives<http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml> and urge them to vote to override the President's veto of the FY 2008 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education spending bill.

NASFAA is joining other organizations in activating a grassroots effort to urge members of the House to override the veto. The House vote is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon, so immediate action is required. In previous votes on the bill the House has come up just short of the two-thirds majority needed to overturn a veto.

It is especially important for members with a Representative who voted against the bill<http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll1075.xml#N> to take action. Please contact these Representatives and urge them to change their vote and support this important increase in student aid funding.

The bill increases the maximum Pell Grant to $4,925 and increases funding for TRIO and GEARUP. It also restores funding for financial aid programs that President Bush recommended eliminating in his 2008 budget.

If the House fails to override the veto, then cuts to Pell grants and possibly other student aid programs are expected.

NASFAA thanks all its members for their hard work to support increases in student aid funding for needy students. One last push is necessary to achieve this goal.

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