Lobbying Suggestions

Organizations supporting
Single Payer

Health Care for All -WA

Physicians for a National Health Plan -Western Washington

WA Single Payer Action

WA - Progressive Democrats of America

Wash State Progressive Caucus

Wa State Jobs with Justice

Island County Activists for Single Payer

Vancouver HealthCare Now

Socialist Alternative

Olympia Single Payer Action

UfSP Lobbying Suggestions

Lobby Update - For the week of Nov. 16th – 20th

Senate Calendar:

Sen. Bernie Sanders is likely to introduce SB 703 during Senate floor debate on Harry Reid's Senate health care bill
Sen. Sanders is also going to introduce a separate amendment asking for a waiver of federal limitations on the ERISA act which would facilitate individual states to impliment a state single payer program

The ‘Ask’ for our members

For both Senators we ask “support Senator Sander's SB 703 and ERISA amendments
For Sen. Patty Murray, please ask why she voted against the ERISA amendment in the Finance Committee in July

--- James Floyd

Tips on Contacting your Members of Congress

Phone calls are better than emails
Emails are better than written letters
Ask for the representatives' health care assistants
Personal note is better than a canned request

Our next UfSP meeting will be [Wed. 18 Nov] at Swedish Cherry Hill, Casey Room next to the cafeteria, 6 pm
Let us know what response you receive….

Washington, D.C. Office	Local Office	District Coordinator(s)
Sen. Patty Murray 173 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: (202) 224-2621 Fax: (202) 224-023 http://murray.senate.gov/email/index.cfm	Sen. Patty Murray Seattle Office 915 Second Avenue, Suite 2988, Seattle, WA 98174 (425) 259-6515 (206) 553-5545 Fax (206) 553-0891	Bill McQuaid billyquaide@hotmail.com
Sen. Maria Cantwell 511 Dirksen Senate Office Bld. Washington, DC 20510 Phone: (202) 224-3441 Fax: (202) 228-0514 maria_cantwell@cantwell.senate.gov	Sen. Maria Cantwell Seattle Office 915 Second Avenue, Suite 3206, Seattle, WA 98174 (206) 220-6400 Fax (206) 220-6404	James Floyd floydster@gmail.com Don Mitchell dwmitchell@stanfordalumni.org
Rep. Jay Inslee – 1st CD 403 Cannon House Office Bldg. Washington, D.C. 20515-4701 Phone: (202) 225-6311 Fax: (202) 226-1606 http://www.house.gov/inslee/contact/email.html	Rep. Jay Inslee – 1st CD Shoreline Office 18560 1st Ave NE, Suite E800 Shoreline, WA 98155 Phone: (206) 361-0233 Fax: (206) 361-395	Ken Fabert kfabert@comcast.net Judith Shattuck judith_shattuck@hotmail.com Sally Soriano sally@sallysoriano.org
Rep. Rick Larson – 2nd CD 108 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Phone: (202) 225-2605 Fax: (202) 225-442 Rick.Larsen@mail.house.gov	Rep. Rick Larson – 2nd CD Everett Office 2930 Wetmore Ave., Suite 9F Everett, WA 98201 Phone: (425) 252-3188 Toll-Free: (800) 562-1385 Fax: (425) 252-6606	Larry Kalb lkalb@openaccess.org
Rep. Brian Baird – 3rd CD 2350 Raybunn Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Phone: (202) 225-3536 Fax: (202) 225-3478 http://www.house.gov/baird/IMA/email.shtml	Rep. Brian Baird – 3rd CD Olympia Office 120 Union Avenue, Suite 105 Olympia, WA 98501 Phone: (360) 352-9768 Fax: (360) 352-9241	Sandy Mayes of Olympia sandymayes36@gmail.com
Rep. Norm Dicks – 6th CD 2467 Rayburn House Office Bldg. Washington, D.C. 20515 Phone: (202) 225-5916 Fax: (202) 226-1176 http://www.house.gov/dicks/email	Rep. Norm Dicks – 6th CD Tacoma Office 1019 Pacific Ave. Suite 806 Tacoma, WA 98402 Phone: (253) 593-6536 Fax: (253) 593-6551	Susan Eidenschink susaneiden@harbornet.com Roberta McNair roberta@pdamerica.org Don Mitchell dwmitchell@stanfordalumni.org
Rep. Jim McDermott – 7th CD 1035 Longworth HOB Washington DC, 20515 Phone: (202) 225-3106 Fax: (202) 225-6197 http://www.house.gov/mcdermott/contact.html	Rep. Jim McDermott – 7th CD Seattle Office 1809 7th Avenue, Suite 1212 Seattle, WA 98101-1399 Phone: (206) 553-7170 Fax: (206) 553-717	Don Mitchell dwmitchell@stanfordalumni.org Kathleen Randall kathleenr8@gmail.com
Rep. Dave Reichert – 8th CD 1223 Longworth House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Phone: (202) 225-7761 Fax: (202) 225-4282 http://www.house.gov/reichert/contact.html	Rep. Dave Reichert – 8th CD Mercer Island Office 2737 78th Ave, S.E., Suite 202, 2nd Floor Mercer Island, WA 98040 Phone: (206) 275-3438 Fax: (206) 275-343
Rep. Adam Smith – 9th CD 2402 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Phone: (202) 225-8901 Fax: (202) 225-5893 http://www.house.gov/adamsmith/ima/email.shtml	Rep. Adam Smith – 9th CD Tacoma Office 3600 Port of Tacoma Road, Suite 106 Tacoma, Washington 98424 Phone: (253) 896-3775 Toll Free: (888) SMITH09 [764-8409] Fax: (253) 896-3789	Don Bunger dbunger@seanet.com
	White House number: (202) 456-1111	Toll free number for all members of Congress: 1-866-220-0044

Next UfSP meeting
Wed, August 4th Swedish/Cherry Hill Campus, James Conf Center, 7PM
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