Find out why the COAT Bill (HR 3101) is important. Captioning on the Internet! Functional equivalent access to Relay! Affordable broadband! Etc.
Click here to see Congressman Markey’s letter to other members of Congress urging their support of HR 3101 (COAT Bill).
Click here to see the Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology (COAT)’s website–and to learn more about the COAT Bill.
Click here to read the National Association of the Deaf’s summary of the COAT Bill.
Click here to learn how you can contact Congress urging their support of the COAT Bill.
Click here to see Caption Action 2, a grassroots campaign for the COAT Bill–providing regular updates on efforts to gain support for the bill.
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October 9th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Kelby,
I am not sure if your Bloggers are aware of this bit of information or not but, the Governor of the State of Maryland wrote personal letters to each of the Representatives from Maryland encouraging them to support HB 3101 – “Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009″. I believe Governor O’Malley is the first and only Governor to take such a bold stand. I encourage your bloggers to contact THEIR Governor and ask that they do the same. This type of support is what is needed to get this pushed through Congress in addition to having them contact their Representatives as individuals.
October 9th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Readers, Brenda was kind enough to provide me with a copy of the letters. I’ve put them up so you can see them for yourselves. Kudos to the Maryland Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ODHH)’s new director Lisa Kornberg as well as Brenda for making this happen.
Letter to Hoyer
Letter to Bartlett
Letter to Cummings
Letter to Edwards
Letter to Kratovil
Letter to Ruppersberger
Letter to Sarbanes
Letter to Van Hollen
Letter to Cardin
Letter to Mikuski
October 15th, 2009 at 10:46 am
The NAD has issued an action alert on this. See http://www.nad.org/news/2009/10/hr-3101-action-alert for more information.
October 30th, 2009 at 5:26 am
Dear Kelby,
I agree what you comment in vlog. I support the COAT HR3101. Where I can sign it to support the COAT HR3101?
Thank you,
Chad
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:36 pm
im gree with you