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Three days until Senate Dear Colleague letter deadline

The deadline for the Senate Dear Colleague letter is just three days away: April 30.

We need your help with a last push for signatures. Now is the time to make follow up calls to your senators!

Your calls and emails are moving us steadily forward. Thanks to your persistence, the NWP has members throughout Congress who value our work. Please remind these legislators one more time that they can show their commitment to NWP by signing the Dear Colleague or by writing their own letter to the appropriations subcommittee.

Your senator can sign the Dear Colleague letter by contacting Barbara Pryor from Senator Rockefeller's office at 202-224-2578, Emily Ferris from Senator Wicker's office at 202-224-6253, or Samantha Harvell from Senator Bingaman's office at 202-224-5521.

ONLY SENATORS OR THEIR AIDES, NOT NWP SITE LEADERS, SHOULD CONTACT BARBARA, EMILY, OR SAMANTHA.

Please email any questions to publicaffairs@nwp.org. Thank you.

Senate Dear Colleague Cosigners 2009, as of April 27:

1. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)

2. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV)

3. Roger Wicker (R-MS)

4. Robert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA)

5. Max Baucus (D-MT)

6. Kent Conrad (D-ND)

7. Tim Johnson (D-SD)

8. Edward Kaufman (D-DE)

9. Blanche L. Lincoln (D-AR)

10. Jack Reed (D-RI)

11. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)

12. Tom Udall (D-NM)

13. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)

14. Ron Wyden (D-OR)


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