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RRCNA Advocacy Update - January, 2009
Dear RRCNA Members:
It’s Advocacy Time in 2009! The 111th Congress was sworn
in on January 6th and your U.S. Senators and Representative need to
hear from you!
Use this link to help compose your message with 1) a sample
letter/email for new and returning members and 2) “Reading Recovery:
A Guide for Decision Makers”:
Other advocacy updates include:
- RRCNA met with the Obama Transition team for
education to discuss literacy policy in the new administration.
- RRCNA congratulates Education Secretary-designee:
RRCNA executive director Jady Johnson sent a letter of
congratulations to Arne Duncan, CEO of Chicago Public Schools,
with information about Reading Recovery.
- RRCNA delivered letters to nearly 100 returning members
of the Appropriations, Budget and Education Committees in the
House and Senate, in addition to those elected to leadership
positions for the 111th Congress.
- RRCNA disseminated “Reading Recovery: A Guide for
Governors” to 47 sitting office holders.
- Congressional committee assignments are trickling in
(and subject to change): If you are a constituent, be sure to
make contact!
House Education & Labor Committee: New Members:
Rep. Bill Cassidy (LA), Rep. Marcia Fudge (OH), Rep. Brett Guthrie
(KY), Rep. Duncan Hunter (CA), Rep. Tom McClintock (CA), Rep. Pedro
Pierluisi (PR), Rep. Jared Polis (CO), Rep. Phil Roe (TN), and Rep.
Paul Tonko (NY).
House Appropriations Committee: New Members of full
committee: Rep. Tom Cole (OK), Stephen LaTourette (OH),
New Members/Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee: Rep. Jim
Moran (VA), Rep. Todd Tiahrt (KS).
Senate Health, Education Labor and Pensions Committee:
New Members: Sen. Robert Casey (PA), Sen. Kay Hagan (NC),
Sen. Jeff Merkley (OR).
Senate Appropriations Committee: New Members:
Sen. Mark Pryor (AR) and Sen. Jon Tester (MT).
Inaugural Trivia: President Barack Obama used who’s
bible when he took the oath of office? See below for the answer.
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Trivia answer:
President Obama used Abraham Lincoln’s Bible, which he used at
his first inauguration on March 4, 1861.
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