Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Adam Smith (D-WA) are circulating a Dear Colleague letter in the House of Representatives urging House Leadership to negotiate a budget deal that provides sequestration relief to nondefense discretionary (NDD) programs, including housing and homelessness programs.
What You Can Do:
1. Contact housing staff members in your Representatives’ Washington, DC offices TODAY by calling the congressional switch board at 877-210-5351 or use this directory.
2. Urge them to have their boss join the Dear Colleague letter by the end of TODAY, Friday, October 23!
3. Let us know which office(s) you contacted by emailing Jaime Colman at jcolman@naeh.org.
To learn more about sequestration's impact on non-defense appropriations read this blog post by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Now is the time to raise the sequester caps! Urge your Representative to support raising the spending caps by signing-on to this letter TODAY! |
