Thursday evening, Senators Tillis (R-NC), King (I-ME), Thune (R-SD), Collins (R-ME), Rounds (R-SD), Cornyn (R-TX), Murkowski (R-AK), Blunt (R-MO) and Warner (D-VA) introduced the Save our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act (S. 792). The bill would make the H-2B returning worker exemption permanent and streamline program processing.
If you are represented by Senator Tillis (R-NC), King (I-ME), Thune (R-SD), Collins (R-ME), Rounds (R-SD), Cornyn (R-TX), Murkowski (R-AK), Blunt (R-MO) or Warner (D-VA), the NALP is asking you to call and email him or her today and say thank you. If your senators are not listed above, you can still call and email them today and ask them to cosponsor S. 792, the Save Our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act.
You can reach your senators through the Capitol Switchboard at 202-225-3121.
You can also tweet at your senators to either thank them or encourage them to cosponsor the S. 792 using #saveH2B and #nalpadvocates.
Congress must complete action on the fiscal 2017 spending bills by April 28. During that time, the NALP plans to send weekly emails to encourage action. April 26 is the date of the coalition fly-in.
The full text for S 792 can be found here.
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