[USMA:52339] Whitehouse petition to update the FPLA

[Henschel Mark]

Hi Guys:
I'm sure you are all pleased we have over 35,000 signatures on a pro-metric petition on the Whitehouse website. The problem is that general requests to Congressmen or Senators often get ignored, because the representative doesn't know what the requestor wants (or doesn't know much about the topic in question in the first place.)
 
I posted a petition about a specific piece of legislation that, if we could make a serious effort to get Congressmen and Senators aware of it, we might be able to take this baby step towards metrication. I am speaking of the metric-only update of the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act. I think once the petition becomes "visible" to anyone searching the Whitehouse website it will start to attract more signers, but we need 125 signatures to get the petition visible. Please sign it, and ask any pro-metric people you know to sign it. Once it starts picking up steam we can tell our Congressmen and Senators there is demand for this legislation.
 
I include the URL that has to be used to access the petition until it becomes visible to everybody. Thanks a lot for any help you can provide in this endeavor.
 
Mark Henschel
 
 

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/update-fair-packaging-and-labeling-act-allow-not-require-use-metric-only-package-labels-usa/JRSbQFHS