Dear list members,
Kat pointed to a useful tool for finding your elected officials, but as
for contacting them, I've read several times (for example this link:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/contacting-your-congressional-representative_us_582a0965e4b060adb56f8e95
) that elected officials don't often give as much consideration to faxes
or emails that can be produced automatically like Resistbot does. Phone
calls and letters are considered more effective at making a point with
elected officials. I suppose using Resistbot is better than nothing, but
if you consider an issue serious enough to contact your elected
official, might as well make the point as effectively as possible and
call or write a letter.
best regards,
john
On 11/20/2017 08:47 PM, Katharine Leigh wrote:
You can also use Facebook Townhall to find your reps and senators, and
send them faxes via Resistbot <https://resistbot.io/>!
Best
Kat
Katharine L. Leigh
My Linkedin <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/katharine-leigh/9a/175/482/en>
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 7:05 PM, David Inouye <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
From the Ecological Society of America's *Policy News: November
20, 2017*
"The tax reform bill passed by the House on Nov. 16 includes
changes that would affect higher education, making it less
affordable and less accessible by eliminating tax provisions for
graduate students and imposing an excise tax on nonprofit private
university endowments. In response to the proposed changes, ESA
joined other scientific societies to send a letter to House
leadership
<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ABQDHEpX8SXmWBxv6b47UZ80yHQTH6A1AngJMXxYPGoNzVWopfhzUY2sfjSxkB2gzpVbKzV6Uj4Ezya1SMQhmTZPHkRyaWxFHvN2TuXFTkLpbEmaGwvGQpzfDvqd2pufCYQWWfi8PrNfP1YC8iEGquBP8SWzuH4tQz3S2uMvewWdgFhBMMB6XJ6C-N31VA6G8d5nizuU0cXNmrbmhqKj5J_vsoCgX8A_I5ASX-25Rs2fArzRbYjskvNBh7UYpDvSvRYO-2b_zN-ZGgVAP2M65uI_Mp0R8Mz7&c=FyJZm3Dezhga70oQiJLWnDHFwEtabGpc3D_VrjD9jBrdF9s53nYPKA==&ch=JSqmLo58G7b_c2vpY2Sqfswbrj0frsSV3y09EilFOOFN6Cin8RvTwA==>
as well as every Member of Congress, urging them to preserve the
critical graduate student tax benefit provisions. The proposed
Senate version of the tax bill maintains many of the education tax
credits and tax exemptions that the House bill eliminated."
If you're in graduate school or considering graduate school, and
think this it's a bad idea to pay for tax cuts for corporations
and some of the wealthiest taxpayers by taxing graduate students,
you should write to your elected representatives in Congress.
Here's one way to find out who they are:
http://act.commoncause.org/site/PageServer?pagename=sunlight_advocacy_list_page
<http://act.commoncause.org/site/PageServer?pagename=sunlight_advocacy_list_page>.
--
Dr. David W. Inouye
Professor Emeritus
Department of Biology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-4415
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Principal Investigator
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
PO Box 519
Crested Butte, CO 81224
