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Feb 26, 2010

House Peace Corps Funding Letter Signatures Jump to 19

In the House of Representatives, the Dear Colleague letter issued Wednesday by RPCV Congressmen Farr, Honda, Petri, Driehaus and Garamendi is off to a great start!

The letter, which requests $465 million for the Peace Corps for Fiscal Year 2010, now has 19 signatures.

The latest additions are Representatives Edolphus Towns (NY), Mazie Hirono (HI), Barney Frank (MA), John Sarbanes (MD), Jim McGovern (MA), Luis Gutierrez (IL), Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX) and Dennis Moore (KS).

You can see the complete list of sign ons by following this link.

This letter will be a major focus of next Tuesday's National Day of Action.  If you want to take action now with your Congressman/woman, follow this link to our February 24th update and look for a phone action in the middle of the story.