Senate Fails to Extend FMAP
Yesterday morning, the Baucus-Reid substitute jobs bill (H.R. 4213) failed to garner enough votes to pass.
Call your Oregon senators today!
Urge them to work with their colleagues to get the 60 votes they need to reinstate FMAP into The American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act. In a time when our economic recovery is still fragile, it is vital to our state and many others that this money be added back into the bill.
Background: H.R. 4213, The American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act is considered an “extenders package” to continue relief money to the states. Funding for FMAP (Federal Medicaid Assistance Program) was removed from the package in the House last week. FMAP helps states pay for Medicaid services, but also goes to fund other vital programs that Oregonians value. (Many of the programs we just voted to protect last January.)
Call Senators Merkley & Wyden today!
Senator Jeff Merkley:
1-202-224-3753
Senator Ron Wyden:
1-202-224-5244
Tell them:
Oregon desperately needs you to extend FMAP, please work with your fellow senators to make sure that FMAP is included in the final bill. Vulnerable Oregon children and families are relying on the programs these funds would protect.
After your call:
Email us and tell us how it went!
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