LEGISLATIVE BULLETIN CALL FOR ACTION! The 105th Congress is off and running on several fronts. This notice deals with legislation to restore the linkage of earnings limits which apply to blind persons and age-65 retirees under the Social Security Act. At this point, a great deal of momentum appears to be building for members to get on board in support of the restoration bill. You can help by contacting all members of the House and Senate. A bill to restore the earnings exemption linkage was introduced in the House of Representatives by Congresswoman Barbara Kennelly. The bill is H.R. 612. There are 57 cosponsors at present. That number should more than double quite soon if all of us work at making it happen. All members of the House should be contacted and urged to cosponsor H.R. 612, the Earnings Exemption for the Blind, Linkage Restoration bill. A list of the current House cosponsors as of February 12 follows this notice. The members who are most likely to become cosponsors quite soon are those who placed their names on Mrs. Kennelly's concurrent resolution--H.Con.Res. 23--in the 104th Congress. That resolution declared that the linkage of earnings limits for the blind and seniors should be maintained. Something over 170 members of the House were cosponsors ofH.Con.Res. 23. Several of them are among the cosponsors of H.R. 612 in the present session. Some are no longer in the House. There are 105 members still serving, however, who were announced cosponsors last year. A list of these members follows the list of current cosponsors. In the Senate, the principal sponsor of the linkage restoration bill will be Senator John McCain of Arizona. He is expected to introduce his bill as a companion to Mrs. Kennelly's bill on February 24. There are 5 Senators who have already decided to become original cosponsors. A list of those Senators appears after the two House lists already mentioned. The Congress will be in a recess period from February 14 through February 24. Most members will be in their districts during that time. They will hold town meetings and have other appointment times available. Their offices in Washington and back home will also still be open. This is a perfect time, therefore, to make contacts on the earnings limit matter. All Senators who have not already signed on with Senator McCain should be urged to do so before February 24 if possible or soon thereafter if not. All members of the House should be urged to sign on to Mrs. Kennelly's bill in the House if they are not among the 57 who have already done so. Those who have, whether in the House or Senate, should be thanked. The time to do our work is now! H.R. 612 COSPONSOR LIST 105th CONGRESS (With telephone and fax numbers where available. Use prefix of 202-22 for all telephone numbers.) ALASKA Rep. Don Young; 5-5765 Fax: 202-225-0425 CALIFORNIA Rep. Sam Farr; 5-2861 Rep. Vic Fazio; 5-5716 Fax: 202-225-5141 Rep. Tom Lantos; 5-3531 Rep. Zoe Lofgren; 5-3072 Fax: 202-225-3336 Rep. Robert T. Matsui; 5-7163 Fax: 202-225-0566 CONNECTICUT Rep. Rosa DeLauro; 5-3661 Rep. Sam. Gejdenson; 5-2076 Fax: 202-225-4977 Rep. James H. Maloney; 5-3822 Rep. Christopher Shays; 5-5541 Fax: 202-225-9629 FLORIDA Rep. Carrie P. Meek; 5-4506 Fax: 202-226-0777 Rep. Cliff Stearns; 5-5744 Fax: 202-225-3973 GEORGIA Rep. John Lewis; 5-3801 Fax: 202-225-0351 HAWAII Rep. Neil Abercrombie; 5-2726 IOWA Rep. Tom Latham; 5-5476 Fax: 202-225-3301 ILLINOIS Rep. Rod R. Blagojevich; 5-4061 Rep. Danny K. Davis; 5-5006 Rep. Lane Evans; 5-5905 Fax: 202-225-5396 Rep. William O. Lipinski; 5-5701 Fax: 202-225-1012 MASSACHUSETTS Rep. Barney Frank; 5-5931 Rep. James P. McGovern; 5-6101 Rep. Richard E. Neal; 5-5601 Fax: 202-225-8112 MARYLAND Rep. Robert Ehrlich; 5-3061 Fax: 202-225-3094 MINNESOTA Rep. James L. Oberstar; 5-6211 Fax: 202-225-0699 Rep. Bruce F. Vento; 5-6631 Fax: 202-225-1968 MISSOURI Rep. Karen McCarthy; 5-4535 NORTH CAROLINA Rep. Eva Clayton; 5-3101 Rep. W. G. (Bill) Hefner; 5-3715 NEBRASKA Rep. Doug Bereuter; 5-4806 NEW JERSEY Rep. Robert Menendez; 5-7919 Fax: 202-226-0792 Rep. Donald M. Payne; 5-3436 Fax: 202-225-4160 NEW YORK Rep. Gary L. Ackerman; 5-2601 Rep. Maurice D. Hinchey; 5-6335 Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney; 5-7944 Fax: 202-225-4709 Rep. Jose E. Serrano; 5-4361 Fax: 202-225-6001 Rep. Edolphus Towns; 5-5936 Fax: 202-225-1018 Rep. James T. Walsh; 5-3701 Fax: 202-225-4042 OHIO Rep. Tony P. Hall; 5-6465 Rep. Marcy Kaptur; 5-4146 Fax: 202-225-7711 Rep. Bob Ney; 5-6265 Fax: 202-225-3394 Rep. Deborah Pryce; 5-2015 Rep. Tom Sawyer; 5-5231 Fax: 202-225-5278 Rep. James A. Traficant, Jr.; 5-5261 Fax: 202-225-3719 PENNSYLVANIA Rep. William J. Coyne; 5-2301 Rep. Tim Holden; 5-5546 Fax: 202-226-0996 SOUTH CAROLINA Rep. John M. Spratt, Jr.; 5-5501 Fax: 202-225-0464 TENNESSEE Rep. Bob Clement; 5-4311 TEXAS Rep. Martin Frost; 5-3605 Fax: 202-225-4951 Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee; 5-3816 VIRGINIA Rep. Rick Boucher; 5-3861 Fax: 202-225-0442 Rep. Thomas M. Davis; 5-1492 Fax: 202-225-3071 VERMONT Rep. Bernard Sanders; 5-4115 Fax: 202-225-6790 WASHINGTON Rep. Jim McDermott; 5-3106 Rep. Adam Smith; 5-8901 WISCONSIN Rep. Gerald D. Kleczka; 5-4572 Fax: 202-225-8135 WEST VIRGINIA Rep. Nick J. Rahall; 5-3452 Fax: 202-225-9061 COSPONSORS OF H.CON.RES.23 104th CONGRESS (With telephone and fax numbers when available. Use prefix of 202-22 for all telephone numbers.) ARIZONA Rep. Jay Dickey; 5-3772 Fax: 202-225-1314 Rep. J. D. Hayworth; 5-2190 Fax: 202-225-3263 Rep. Ed Pastor; 5-4065 Rep. Bob Stump; 5-4576 Fax: 202-225-6328 CALIFORNIA Rep. George E. Brown; 5-6161 Rep. Ronald V. Dellums; 5-2661 Rep. Julian C. Dixon; 5-7084 Fax: 202-225-4091 Rep. Anna G. Eshoo; 5-8104 Rep. Bob Filner; 5-8045 Fax: 202-225-9073 Rep. Matthew G. Martinez; 5-5464 Fax: 202-225-5467 Rep. George Miller; 5-2095 Rep. Ron Packard; 5-3906 Fax: 202-225-0134 Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard; 5-1766 Rep. Esteban E. Torres; 5-5256 Fax: 202-225-9711 Rep. Henry A. Waxman; 5-3976 Fax: 202-225-4099 Rep. Lynn Woolsey; 5-5161 CONNECTICUT Rep. Nancy L. Johnson; 5-4476 Fax: 202-225-4488 FLORIDA Rep. Corrine Brown; 5-0123 Fax: 202-225-2256 Rep. Peter Deutsch; 5-7931 Fax: 202-225-8456 Rep. Alcee L. Hastings; 5-1313 Fax: 202-226-0690 GEORGIA Rep. Sanford D. Bishop; 5-3631 Fax: 202-226-3601 Rep. Nathan Deal; 5-5211 Rep. Cynthia A. McKinney; 5-1605 IOWA Rep. Jim Leach; 5-6576 Fax: 202-226-1278 IDAHO Rep. Helen Chenoweth; 5-6611 Fax: 202-225-3029 ILLINOIS Rep. Jerry F. Costello; 5-5661 Fax: 202-225-0285 Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez; 5-8203 Fax: 202-225-7810 Rep. Ray LaHood; 5-6201 Fax: 202-225-9249 Rep. Sidney R. Yates; 5-2111 Fax: 202-225-3493 KENTUCKY Rep. Scotty Baesler; 5-4706 LOUISIANA Rep. Richard H. Baker; 5-3901 Rep. Robert L. Livingston; 5-3015 Fax: 202-225-0739 Rep. William J. Jefferson; 5-6636 MASSACHUSETTS Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy, II; 5-5111 Fax: 202-225-9322 Rep. Edward J. Markey; 5-2836 Rep. John W. Olver; 5-5335 Fax: 202-226-1224 MARYLAND Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest; 5-5311 Fax: 202-225-0254 Rep. Constance A. Morella; 5-5341 Fax: 202-225-1389 Rep. Albert R. Wynn; 5-8699 Fax: 202-225-8714 MAINE Rep. John Baldacci; 5-6306 Fax: 202-225-2943 MICHIGAN Rep. David E. Bonior; 5-2106 Fax: 202-226-1169 Sen Carl Levin 4-6221 Fax: 202-224-1388 Rep. Dale E. Kildee; 5-3611 Rep. Lynn Nancy Rivers; 5-6261 Fax: 202-225-3404 Rep. Bart Stupak; 5-4735 Fax: 202-225-4744 MINNESOTA Rep. Gil Gutknecht; 5-2472 Rep. William P. (Bill) Luther; 5-2271 Fax: 202-225-3368 Rep. David Minge; 5-2331 Rep. Collin C. Peterson; 5-2165 MISSOURI Rep. Ike Skelton; 5-2876 MISSISSIPPI Rep. Mike Parker; 5-5865 Fax: 202-225-5886 Rep. Gene Taylor; 5-5772 Rep. Bennie Thompson; 5-5876 Fax: 202-225-5878 NORTH CAROLINA Rep. Melvin Watt; 5-1510 Fax: 202-225-1512 NEBRASKA Rep. Bill Barrett; 5-6435 NEW JERSEY Rep. Frank Pallone Jr.; 5-4671 Fax: 202-225-9665 Rep. Christopher H. Smith; 5-3765 NEW MEXICO Rep. Joe Skeen; 5-2365 Fax: 202-225-9599 NEW YORK Rep. Sherwood Boehlert; 5-3665 Fax: 202-225-1891 Rep. Eliot L. Engel; 5-2464 Rep. Benjamin A. Gilman; 5-3776 Rep. Sue Kelly; 5-5441 Fax: 202-225-3289 Rep. Peter T. King; 5-7896 Fax: 202-226-2279 Rep. Thomas J. Manton; 5-3965 Fax: 202-225-1909 Rep. Susan Molinari; 5-3371 Fax: 202-226-1272 Rep. Jerrold Nadler; 5-5635 Fax: 202-225-6923 Rep. Charles B. Rangel; 5-4365 Fax: 202-225-0816 Rep. Charles E. Schumer; 5-6616 Fax: 202-225-4183 Rep. Nydia M. Velazquez; 5-2361 Fax: 202-226-0327 OHIO Rep. Sherrod Brown; 5-3401 Fax: 202-225-2266 Rep. Paul E. Gillmor; 5-6405 Rep. Steven C. LaTourette; 5-5731 Fax: 202-225-3307 Rep. Ralph Regula; 5-3876 Fax: 202-225-3059 Rep. Louis Stokes; 5-7032 Fax: 202-225-1339 OREGON Rep. Elizabeth Furse; 5-0855 Fax: 202-225-9497 Rep. Peter A. DeFazio; 5-6416 PENNSYLVANIA Rep. Robert A. Borski; 5-8251 Fax: 202-225-4628 Rep. Chaka Fattah; 5-4001 Rep. Thomas M. Foglietta; 5-4731 Fax: 202-225-0088 Rep. Jon D. Fox; 5-6111 Fax: 202-225-3155 Rep. Frank R. Mascara; 5-4665 Fax: 202-225-3377 Rep. John P. Murtha; 5-2065 RHODE ISLAND Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy; 5-4911 Fax: 202-225-3290 SOUTH CAROLINA Rep. James E. Clyburn; 5-3315 Fax: 202-225-2313 Rep. Lindsey Graham; 5-5301 Rep. Bob Inglis; 5-6030 Fax: 202-226-1177 Rep. Floyd D. Spence; 5-2452 Fax: 202-225-2455 TENNESSEE Rep. John Tanner; 5-4714 Fax: 202-225-1765 TEXAS Rep. Ken Bentsen; 5-7508 Fax: 202-225-2947 Rep. Chet Edwards; 5-6105 Fax: 202-225-0350 Rep. Gene Green; 5-1688 Fax: 202-225-9903 Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson; 5-8885 Fax: 202-226-1477 UTAH Rep. James V. Hansen; 5-0453 Fax: 202-225-5857 VIRGINIA Rep. James P. Moran; 5-4376 Fax: 202-225-0017 WASHINGTON Rep. Jennifer Dunn; 5-7761 Rep. Richard (Doc) Hastings; 5-5816 Fax: 202-225-3251 Rep. Jack Metcalf; 5-2605 Fax: 202-225-4420 Rep. George Nethercutt; 5-2006 Rep. Linda Smith; 5-3536 Fax: 202-225-3478 WISCONSIN Rep. Thomas M. Barrett; 5-3571 Rep. Tom Petri; 5-2476 Fax: 202-225-2356 Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner; 5-5101 Fax: 202-225-3190 WEST VIRGINIA Rep. Alan B. Mollohan; 5-4172 Fax: 202-225-7564 Rep. Bob Wise; 5-2711 Fax: 202-225-7856 SENATE COSPONSORS OF EARNINGS LIMIT RESTORATION BILL 105th CONGRESS (With telephone and fax numbers) CONNECTICUT Sen. Christopher Dodd; 202-224-2823 Fax: 202-224-7475 ILLINOIS Sen. Richard J. Durbin; 202-224-2152 Fax: 202-224-0868 KANSAS Sen. Pat Roberts; 202-224-4774 Fax: 202-224-3514 KENTUCKY Sen. Wendell Ford; 202-224-4343 Fax: 202-224-0046 NEW HAMPSHIRE Sen. Judd Gregg; 202-224-3324 Fax: 202-224-4952