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January
31
& February 1, 2010
Washington, DC
Thank
you for participating in the 2010 March on the Hill meetings. Below you will find a
wealth of information and resources to carry out the tasks at hand. If you
have questions or concerns, here are your contacts:
Lennox McLendon, 804.314.6747.
dc2@ncsdae.org
Vonda Burns, 202.624.5250,
vburns@naepdc.org
Sunday,
January 31
4:00 pm Policy Committee Briefing:
6:00 pm Dinner on your on
Monday,
February 1
9:00 am Policy Committee Briefing
10:00 am Hill Visits
4:00 pm Debriefing
(Click on House and Senate
icons below to find your Congressperson and Senator)
Key Contacts
(Is your
member on one of the below list? If so, we've included contact info
for the legislative staff person in charge of Adult Education)
U.S. Senate Committee on
Health Education, Labor and Pensions
Tom Harkin (IA)
Christopher Dodd (CT)
Barbara A. Mikulski (MD)
Jeff Bingaman (NM)
Patty Murray (WA)
Jack Reed (RI)
Bernard Sanders (I) (VT)
Sherrod Brown (OH)
Robert P. Casey, Jr. (PA)
Kay Hagan (NC)
Jeff Merkley (OR)
Al Franken (MN)
Michael Bennet (CO)
Michael B. Enzi (WY)
Judd Gregg (NH)
Lamar Alexander (TN)
Richard Burr (NC)
Johnny Isakson (GA)
John McCain (AZ)
Orrin G. Hatch (UT)
Lisa Murkowski (AK)
Tom Coburn, M.D. (OK)
Pat Roberts (KS)
Subcommittee
on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies
Chair: David R. Obey (WI)
Nita M. Lowey (NY)
Rosa L. DeLauro (CT)
Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. (IL)
Patrick J. Kennedy (RI)
Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA)
Barbara Lee (CA)
Michael Honda (CA)
Betty McCollum (MN)
Tim Ryan (OH)
James P. Moran (VA)
Ranking Member:
Todd Tiahrt (KS)
Dennis R. Rehberg (MT)
Rodney Alexander (LA)
Jo Bonner (AL)
Tom Cole (OK)
Jerry Lewis (CA), Ex Officio
United States House Education
Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness
Majority Minority
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Rubén Hinojosa, Texas,
Chairman
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Timothy Bishop, New York
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Jason Altmire, Pennsylvania
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Joe
Courtney, Connecticut
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Paul Tonko, New York
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Dina Titus, Nevada
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Rob Andrews, New Jersey
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John Tierney, Massachusetts
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David
Wu, Oregon
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Susan Davis, California
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Mazie Hirono, Hawaii
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Marcia Fudge, Ohio
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Jared Polis, Colorado
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Pedro Pierluisi, Puerto Rico
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Brett Guthrie, Kentucky,
Ranking Member
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John Kline, Minnesota[1]
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Michael Castle, Delaware
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Mark Souder, Indiana
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Vernon Ehlers, Michigan
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Judy Biggert, Illinois
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Bill Cassidy, Louisiana
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Phil
Roe, Tennessee
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Glenn "G.T." Thompson, Pennsylvania
When scheduling your visit, please allow at least 30 minutes in between
appointments. While one member may be located in The Russell
Senate Office Building, your next appointment may be in the Cannon
House Office Building, which is
on the other side of the Capitol Building. Please consider walking
distance and weather when scheduling your appointments.
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"Don't Be Scared"
- Many people are apprehensive about visiting their representative's office if they
have not done so before.
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YOUR
REPRESENTATIVE REALLY WANTS TO KNOW WHAT YOU THINK!
- Below, we have provided
you with the necessary information for a successful
visit.
- This information will walk you step-by-step through your
visit!
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Before the Visit
How to contact your Member
Call the Members office and ask for the person on the staff who is responsible
for
· Adult education if the Member
is not on appropriations
committee
· Adult education appropriations if the Member is on
appropriations committee
Suggested scripts
“I am (name) from Congressman (name’s) district and I would like
to speak with the staff person who handles adult education issues.....or,
Hi I am (name).
I am the state director of adult education in (state), and I would like
to speak with the staff person who handles adult education
issues.....or,
I am going to be in Washington on March 16 and would like to meet with you for
about 15 minutes and with the Congressman/woman or Senator if he/she is available regarding the
adult education needs and successes in the district.
Are you available anytime on the 16th?
If the Congressman/woman or Senator is available I would love to say hello also.
(When he/she asks the nature of the visit—“We appreciate the federal support for
adult education and I wanted to share some of the impact on adults in the
District/State and solicit the Congressman/woman
or Senator's continued support.
What is important to him/her
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Go to the
Member
Profile.
o
link to
2008 Politics in America
biographies/fact sheets by state
o
Username: NAEPDC Password:
vb1024
Log in and read up on your Member. Pay particular attention
to:
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Preparing
Your Materials /
Resource and Program Information
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Waiting List
Survey Report (click below)
Part One -
Executive Summary
Part Two -
Additional Results
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NAAL
White Paper - American Competitiveness Challenge
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Impact of adult education services in your state
(provided by you)
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Success program services in your state
(provided by you)
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Student Success Bios -
one pagers with photos of
your students, their stories, thanking the Member for the funding to make it
happen, signed by student
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Target Population Information Sheet
( click on your
state for documents below )
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This sheet includes information on: what is adult education, state
specific U.S. Census data and other important Adult Education Facts.
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The Visit
Entering the office:
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Have your business card
in hand.
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The person at the desk
will greet you
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Hand them your business
card, introduce yourself as being from the home state and tell the
receptionist that you have an appointment with _____.
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The receptionist will
take your card and ask you to have a seat while she/he calls.
The people:
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Often the Member will
not be able to meet with you, or if he/she does, it will be to stop by, say
hello and be off to another meeting.
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If he/she does stop by,
tell him/her that you will brief the staff and thank him/her for the
support for adult education (This will give him/her a chance to say
‘adult ed is really important to me’ which you can remind him/her of
later.
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Usually you will meet
with the staff person who is in charge of education
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That is good
because that is the person the Member goes to for information (Members have
a lot to keep up with and depend on staff to be briefed on the issues)
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Often the staff know
very little about adult education, so some basics are important.
The meeting place:
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There is not much
meeting space so don’t be surprised if you hold your meeting in the
reception area of the office. It happens all the time.
Starting the meeting:
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Introduce yourself and
make small talk about the state if you like
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Thank her/him for
meeting with you
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“I know you are busy.
As I mentioned to you on the phone, we (I) wanted to take about 15 or 20
minutes to share some information with you. Is that time frame still good?
The Agenda
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Overview:
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I wanted to take a
few minutes to share some information about the need for adult education
in the district
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Then I wanted to
share with you some of the success stories we have
- I am a resource for any information needed about Adult Education and are
available anytime
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Lastly I wanted to
ask for the continued support
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What is adult
education:
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At the beginning of
the
Target Population Information Sheet
is a description of what adult
education is and who it can serve—the staff person may not know this so
start with that.
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The need: Tell them there are two ways to identify need: Census and the
National Assessment of Adult Literacy ( do not say NAAL—they will not know
what that means)
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Census
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NAAL
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Show them a copy
of the Local Estimates (http://nces.ed.gov/naal/estimates/)
to show the need.
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The success:
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Your materials
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If you have
student success stories with pictures to personalize the success
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Use your report
cards or any other material you have that depicts our success
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Recap: “So you can see that there are -----##--- adults in the district/state
that need our assistance and we can serve only ---##----, so the gap is large.
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They may ask here,
“Well how much does the state fund” to which you can reply the state is
required to match with $XXX but the state actually overmatches by
contributing $xxx. (if that is the case of course)
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If that is not
the case and your state only matches the minimum, then say “The
state is required to match $xx and they provide that match. If the
federal funding goes up, the state match will go up.
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THE ASK :
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We appreciate the
Congressman’/woman’ or Senator's support and would like to ask him/her to write a
letter to the Chair of the Appropriations subcommittee, asking him
to support $750M for adult Education
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Our appropriation now
is approximately $550M. We have waiting list all over the country.
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(Go back to the
Target Population Information Sheet) and point to the section “Is
Adult Education Effective?” and call attention to the fact that OMB rated
adult education as effective—only four US Dept of Ed received the rating.
(DO NOT OMIT THIS PART)
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“Adult Education is a
GOOD INVESTMENT” we get results
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“Do you think the
Congressman/woman or Senator would be willing to write a letter or OR SIGN A DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTER
IN SUPPORT OF THAT POSITION.
The typical response is
“I will certainly ask the Congressman/woman or Senator”
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To which you reply
“Thank you so much. I will call you next week to see what his/her answer.
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Contact information:
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Thank you for your time
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You have my card.
Please put me on your contact list if you or the Congressman/woman or
Senator have any
questions related to adult education.
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After the Meeting
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Send a
thank you note to whomever you met. Remind them to contact
you if they have any issues related to adult education and
literacy.
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Once a
quarter, send your contacts a brief with success and impact
information and follow up with a phone call to ensure they
got it and read it. (If they learn you are going to call,
they will read it.)
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Get local
programs to host Members visits. Plan ahead. Check the
legislative calendars for recess dates (these are dates when
the Members are most likely to go home) :
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