From:	MONARFE [monarfe@att.net]
Sent:	Sunday, June 07, 2009 9:36 PM
To:	MONARFE
Subject:	MONARFENet 011-2009: Headquarters Calls for "All Hands-on-Deck" Action (d)

NARFE Legislative Hotline 673 yesterday, Friday, June 5th issues an “all hands-on-deck action” by all of us NARFE members to contact our Representative and both Senators.

Earlier this week, President Obama called on Congress to pass comprehensive health care legislation before the start of the August recess. This legislation is the ideal vehicle in which to attach our premium conversion bills. Because time to mobilize NARFE members before August is relatively short, NARFE President, Margaret L. Baptiste, asks each NARFE member to immediately contact his or her Congressional delegation, one Representative and two Senators.  

Your message to your Representative:

“I ask that you urge House Ways and Means Chairman, Charles Rangel, to include H.R. 1203, Federal and Military Retiree Health Care Equity Act, in comprehensive health care reform legislation the committee is currently considering.” 

Your message to Senators Bond and McCaskill:

“I ask that you urge Senate Finance Committee Chairman, Max Baucus, to include S. 491, Federal and Military Retiree Health Care Equity Act, in comprehensive health care reform legislation the committee is currently considering.”

If you are a subscriber for the NARFE Hotline, you will already read have read this special request from our National President Margaret Baptiste. Please contact your fellow members and encourage them to contact your representative and Senators Bond and McCaskill.

If you are a chapter “Point of Contact,” please pass this message to your chapter president and chapter legislative officer.

If you are not a subscriber of the Hotline, you may want to go to www.narfe.org to subscribe.

Other issues mentioned in Hotline 673:
“would allow federal agencies to re-employ federal retirees on a limited, part-time basis without offset of annuity,”
“would enable FERS workers to credit their unused sick leave toward retirement’”
would “provide federal employees paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child,”
and could “base retirement calculations on the ‘High 5’ instead of the current ‘High 3’ years of salary.’

If you may be affected by any of these, please sign up for the Hotline, and get a copy of Hotline 673.

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