[PPRAANet] FW: ARESCO: Fwd: H.R. 4969 Update and Look Ahead

[John Bloodgood]

> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 13:32:04 -0700
> From: mrmanes at gmail.com
> To: DRL_Hams at yahoogroups.com; EOSS_Private at yahoogroups.com; aresco at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: ARESCO: Fwd: H.R. 4969 Update and Look Ahead
> 
> FYI. Hope you all have urged your congressperson to sign
> on as a cosponsor. This bill ain't dead yet!
> 73 de Mike W5VSI
> Colo ARES HF NM
> 
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> Subject: H.R. 4969 Update and Look Ahead
> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 15:02:52 -0500 (EST)
> From: ARRL Members Only Web site <memberlist at www.arrl.org>
> To: mrmanes at gmail.com
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> As we all have experienced, the political process is complex and slow
> and the wheels of government are even slower.  That being said, our
> efforts with H.R. 4969 ("The Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2014") have
> had measures of success; we intended to obtain 30 co-sponsors for the
> Bill and actually ended up with almost 70, and ARRL's advocacy is once
> again being known and gleaning interest in the halls of Congress.
> 
> Although we got a late start on the legislative effort last June due to
> time needed to line up a minority cosponsor so that a truly bipartisan
> bill could be introduced, we were able to amass an exceptional and
> surprising level of support for the Bill, thanks to that very
> bipartisan co-sponsorship, and thanks especially to your efforts at the
> grassroots level.  As was the risk being so close to the end of the
> current Congress and this being a distracting election year, the Bill
> did not progress as far as expected. Nevertheless, the support
> generated will give us a significant head start in the 114th Congress
> beginning in January, not to mention the breathing room of at least a
> full legislative session ahead to pile on more progress. We have in
> mind reassembling at least 60 of the cosponsors that we had for H.R.
> 4969 as original cosponsors for the new Bill which should give us
> momentum to obtain a much larger list of cosponsors, more positive
> visibility, more buy-in, and ultimately more traction in a usually
> sticky legislative process. We have also received interest from
> Senators in sponsoring a Senate version of the Bill. So far, opposition
> from the one association representing HOAs has been only minimally
> active in attempts to oppose the Bill and they have been unsuccessful
> due to their mis-statements of fact and mis-characterization of the
> actual effect of the legislation.
> 
> Many thanks to all of you who wrote, called, emailed, and personally
> visited your Congressional Representatives, as we began our travel in
> the maze of representative government; your efforts have not gone
> un-noticed and have built a strong foundation for a strong follow-on
> phase.
> 
> Please stay tuned for next steps.
> 
> 73,
> Brian Mileshosky N5ZGT, Rocky Mountain Division Director
> Dwayne Allen WY7FD, Rocky Mountain Division Vice-Director
> Division website: www.RockyMountainDivision.org
> 
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