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Time for Action - Welfare Reform??? Yes!!! October Calendar Workshop for Observers Human Resources Arbor Day Planting Convention Call Congressional Study - October Unit I Now is the Time... Voter Service Update We Trained Ourselves Campaign Controls? - October Unit II (Nan Lowers & Alice Scott) United Nations Day -- October 24th We Are the Builders - Consensus Be Part of the "Pulse"

Time for Action - Welfare Reform??? Yes!!! This information was received from National and is the "Number One Priority". TIME FOR ACTION - To urge local and state Leagues to press President Nixon for aggressive leadership to secure passage of welfare reform legislation this year and to ask U.S. senators and Governors to work for the same goal. THE SITUATION - The August 15 Presidential request that the implementation date for welfare reform be delayed for one year (until July 1973), has been interpreted by some as a request to postpone legislation establishing welfare reform. Also, the Senate Finance Committee is largely hostile to HR 1; Committee Chairman Russell Long responded to the implementation delay request by saying that he might postpone action on HR 1 and/or Title IV; Presidential and constituent pressure is essential to securing support for action on a welfare bill we might be able to support, WHAT WE NEED TO DO - Write or wire, urging the President to use the full powers of the presidency to achieve Congressional action on welfare reform this year. Let him know that without his leadership, the rug will be pulled out from under welfare reform and that it is, essential that he restore confidence in his commitment to untangling the welfare mess. Tell the President that we understand the dimensions of the current fiscal crisis, but that we think that the need for welfare reform legislation is also a national emergency. Send a copy of your letter to the Honorable George Schultz, Director, Office of Management and Budget, the White House; to the Honorable John N. Mitchell, Attorney General, Department of Justice, 9th & Constitution Ave., N.W., Washington D.C. 20430; to the Honorable Maurice Stans, Secretary of Commerce, Department of Commerce, Commerce. Bldg., 14th & Constitution Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230. These three men are top political and budgetary mentors who need to know what we are telling the President. Write to your Senators and Governors. Let them know you want their help in getting full Presidential support for legislation this year. Ask ether organization and individuals to write similar welfare letters. See Be Part of the "Pulse" in this month's Aloha Voter for guides on letter writing to Officials.

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