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AAPD
Action Alert on Budget Reconciliation Final Report
CUTS to
MEDICAID LIKELY.
YOUR HELP IS
NEEDED.
Below you'll find an action alert from AAPD regarding the budget resolution
being considered in Congress. It looks like they will be in session next
week to continue debate on this. Call your Senators and Representatives and
let them know how the budget cuts will affect you. There is a toll free
number included in the action alert.
Call
your Senators and Representative TODAY!!!
Vote on Budget Reconciliation Imminent!
The information contained in this alert is based on reports received as
of this morning Friday, Dec. 16. These reports have not been fully
confirmed. A meeting of the House-Senate conferees on the budget
reconciliation final report which had been rumored for today has been
rescheduled for Monday. In fact,conferees are yet to be officially named.
The controversial Artic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) provision that
has held up the budget reconciliation process (the Senate bill included it
and the House did not) may be put in the Defense appropriations bill.
Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK),chairman of the Defense Appropriations
Subcommittee, has threatened to keep the Senate in session until the matter
(ANWR)is resolved. "I will be here through Christmas if necessary," he said.
And he will not sign the budget reconciliation conference report until this
issue is resolved. Thus, the budgetreconciliation report may be dependent on
completion of the $453 billion FY 06 Defense spending bill. [Note: the
Defense bill is likely to contain a one percent across-the-board cut inmost
domestic discretionary spending.] Also, Senate Democrats are prepared to
raise procedural obstacles and stall the bill ifnecessary.
So it is imperative that you call your Senators and Representative TODAY
and tell them to vote NO on the final version of the budget cuts (HR 4241
and S 1932). Any way you look at it, the end result is cuts in funding to
programs that serve people with disabilities and other low-income persons,
including children.
The really unfortunate story in this whole process is that it isNOT our
concerns cuts to Medicaid, SSI, foster care, food stamps, student loans,
child support, cost-sharing for Medicaid beneficiaries that are driving this
train. Issues like ANWR
and how much of an increase in Medicare fees to give physicians are taking
center-stage. The only way OUR concerns will be given the priority they
deserve is if members of Congress, particularly those doing this
negotiating, hear from US!
**** CALL NOW 800-426-8073 ****
Tell your Senators and Representative to vote NO on this final version of
budget cuts!
Marc Kilmer
Executive Director/CEO
American Congress of Community Supports and Employment Services (ACCSES)
1875 Eye St., NW 11th Floor
Washington, DC 20006
phone: 202 466-3355
fax: 202 466-7571
www.accses.org
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