Update on Intercountry Adoption Proposed Rule Advocacy!

Hello Everyone!

Keep making calls – there are some new names coming in, but we could still use many more. Just a reminder that offices now have until MONDAY to get signatures on that letter. So, keep up that polite persistence.

• Follow-Up Letter including Information from SBA (PDF)
• US SBA Office of Advocacy Comment Letter on Intercountry Adoptions Proposed Rule (PDF)
• FACT SHEET for Intercountry Adoptions Proposed Rule November 2016 (PDF)

Some news you may have already heard is the Small Business Administration letter and comments have been publicly shared.  A tremendous amount of gratitude for their advocacy and support in opposing these overreaching and detrimental proposed changes.  This might be info that is helpful to your Members of Congress to hear! Attached is a sample letter (thanks to MLJ Adoptions) using that resource. Check it out and consider using it yourself if you find it helpful.

Finally, these are the names who have signed onto this letter as of a few hours ago… If yours aren’t on here, another outreach might be helpful. And a quick thank you to the staffer is always remembered, if they did sign on.  Share, share, share! 

Senate

• Blunt
• Klobuchar
• Risch
• Wicker
• Tillis
• Thune (Tentative)
• Lankford

House

• Lawrence
• Franks
• Huizenga
• Mullin
• Barr
• Stewart