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This April: Help Secure House Energy and Commerce Members As DIA Co-Sponsors!

Thank you for participating in our Women’s History Month campaign to get women in Congress to co-sponsor the Disability Integration Act of 2019 (DIA) – H.R. 555 and S. 117! Thanks to your efforts, we secured six women co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, and one of them is on House Judiciary Committee!

  • Susan Davis (D-CA)
  • Deb Haaland (D-NM)
  • Primilia Jayapal (D-WA)
  • Nita Lowery (D-NY)
  • Nydia Velazquez (D-NY)
  • Jennifer Wexton (D-VA)

Now we need to focus on securing members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce as DIA co-sponsors before the end of April!

As we embark on the fourth month of 2019 and of the 116th Congress, we need these members to get the DIA moving in Congress over the next few weeks. It is imperative that we connect with these members’ offices every day until we reach our goal.

We need their phones ringing! Calls or visits to the home office are the best way to convince these Representatives to co-sponsor the DIA.

Your advocacy is critical to move the DIA in this Congress. Please call today and ask your family, friends, and co-workers to do the same.