On behalf of the HOME Coalition, NH&RA encourages you to call your Members of Congress and ask them to sign onto the HOME Dear Colleague Letters in support of robust funding for HOME in FY 2017.

“We are off to a great start, but we have a lot of work ahead of us before the deadline in the House this Friday, March 11 and the deadline in the Senate on March 15,” the HOME Coalition wrote in a letter to members this week.

Call Your Senators!

Please call your Senators and ask them to sign onto the FY 2017 Leahy/Coons HOME Dear Colleague Letter.

So far, 10 Senators have signed on, including Sens. Baldwin (WI), Cardin (MD), Coons (DE), Hirono (HI), Leahy (VT), Manchin (WV), Peters (MI), Schatz (HI), Stabenow (MI), and Whitehouse (RI). Senators can sign on by contacting Erica Chabot (erica_chabot@leahy.senate.gov) or Eric Walls (eric_walls@coons.senate.gov) by the March 15 deadline.

A great place to start is with the Senators who signed on last year, including Sens. Booker (NJ), Blumenthal (CT), Boxer (CA), Brown (OH), Durbin (IL), Feinstein (CA), Franken (MN), Heinrich (NM), Kaine (VA), King (ME), Klobuchar (MN), Markey (MA), Menendez (NJ), Merkely (OR), Sanders (VT), Schumer (NY), Shaheen (NH), Warner (VA), Warren (MA), Wyden (OR). You can find contact information for your Senators here.

Call Your Representatives!

The deadline for the FY 2017 Fudge HOME Dear Colleague Letter in the House is fast approaching. Please continue to call your Representatives and ask them to sign on by contacting Felix Muniz (felix.muniz@mail.house.gov) by the March 11 deadline.

So far, 37 Representatives have signed on, including Blumenauer, Bordallo, Brownley, Capuano, Cartwright, Cicilline, Coffman, Costa, Courtney, Crowley, Danny Davis, Ellison, Engel, Esty, Garamendi, Al Green, Grijalva, Heck, Kirkpatrick, Langevin, Barbara Lee, Levin, Lowenthal, McGovern, McNerney, Pascrell, Pingree, Pocan, Schakowsky, Sires, Speier, Takai, Tsongas, Vargas, Veasey, Welch, and Wilson.

But, we have a lot of work ahead of us. Last year, the following Representatives signed on: Adams, Bass, Beatty, Becerra, Bera, Beyer, Sanford Bishop, Bonamici, Brady, Brown, Butterfield, Capps, Cardenas, Carney, Carson, Castor, Chu, Yvette Clark, Katherine Clark, Cohen, Connolly, Conyers, Cummings, Susan Davis, DeGette, Delaney, DeLauro, Deutch, Doyle, Edwards, Fattah, Gabbard, Grayson, Hastings, Higgins, Honda, Huffman, Jackson Lee, Hank Johnson, Eddie B. Johnson, Keating, Kildee, Kuster, Larson, Lawrence, Lewis, Loebsack, Lofgren, Lujan Grisham, Lynch, McDermott, Moore, Moulton, Nadler, Norton, Peters, Plaskett, Rangel, Richmond, Ruiz, Rush, Linda Sanchez, Loretta Sanchez, Sarbanes, Schiff, David Scott, Robert Scott, Swalwell, Takano, Mike Thompson, Van Hollen, Vela, Walz, Wasserman Schultz, and Waters.

You can find contact information for your Representatives here.

For more information, check out the HOME Coalition website or visit Enterprise’s #HOMEworks campaign site. If you have any questions, please contact Althea Arnold (aarnold@ncsha.org) or Sarah Mickelson (smickelson@enterprisecommunity.org).