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China News Digest - US Regional Services (Bo Xiong) --------------- Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 19:57:30 GMT Reply-To: ifcss Sender: Newsletter on Chinese Community From: ifcss Subject: HQ NR #7027: Infor Updated and Actions Needed on Immigration Bills To: Multiple recipients of list CCNL Status: RO &=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&= * HEADQUARTERS NEWSRELEASE * HEADQUARTERS NEWSRELEASE * HEADQUARTERS * &^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^ * * * N E W S R E L E A S E 7027 * * * _________ August 30, 1995 __________ [[[[[[ [[[[[[[[[[ [[[[[[ [[[[[[[ [[[[[[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ _______ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[[[[[[ [[[ [[[[[ [[[[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[[[ [[[[[ ______ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ ____ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[ [[[[ [[[ [[[[ [[[ [[[[[[ [[[[[[ [[[[[[[ [[[[[[[[ [[[[[[[[ &^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^& IFCSS Foundation, Inc. 733 15th Street, NW Suite 440 Washington, D.C. 20005 Tel: (202) 347-0017 Fax: (202) 347-0018 &=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&=& Information Updated and Actions Needed on Immigration Bills 1. There are only several days before Congress members come back to D.C. and Congress resumes. The Coalition on Family Immigration- related Issues convened its another regular meeting Wednesday. This coalition deployed a representative, Michael Munoz, to Chicago on Sunday to meet Congressman Henry J. Hyde, Chair of House Judiciary Committee (Republican), who is supposed to be a key person with rather influential impacts on related bills in coming weeks, and bring him abundant information, analyses, and concerns from all the groups, including IFCSS, on H.R. 2202. Mr. Hyde has been quite symph- athetic on H.R. 2202, but declined to support splitting the bill into two. He asserted that there were more concerns in H.R. 2202 which could not be solved by simply splitting it. Influenced by vigorous lobby in the past weeks, Mr. Hyde has changed his mind somewhat from original "typical" Republican stands. He was now even concerned about the issue of harshly sweeping "illegal" immigration. IFCSS would like to appeal to CSS organizations in Chicago area, and in Illiois, especially those groups set particularly for immigration issues, and general CSS, to snatch the chance of the last several days before Labor Day: send fax and give calls to his district office, in order to make the current breakthrough solidized. As we spoke before, each piece of message counts! Senator Henry Hyde's information - Illinois, 6th Term District Office: 708 832 5950 (Addison) Legislative Director: Judy Wolverton D.C. office: 202 225 4561 (O) 202 225 1166 (F) office address: 2110-RHOB * * * * * 2. Republicans from three states will play critical roles in pushing H.R. 2202 through the House Judiciary Committee, although they are not too many. They all bear much more spiritual pressure from their state constituents, both pro or con, in their states. The coalition has allocated manpower to try softening each of them, respectively, at present. IFCSS Task Force would suggest Chinese students and scholars nationwide make more efforts on them by sending them fax message. Three states and their Republican representatives are: STATE/Representatives District Office D.C. Office California: Carlos J. Moorhead 818 792 6168 202 225 4176 202 226 1279 (F) Elton Gallegly 805 485 2300 202 225 5811 202 225 1100 (F) Sonny Bono 619 320 1076 202 225 5330 202 225 2961 (F) Texas: Lamar S.Smith 512 895 1414 4236 8628 210 821 5024 915 687 5232 512 218 4221 915 653 3971 Florida: Bill McCollum 407 872 1962 2176 0999 Charles Canady 813 688 2651 3376 8016 We were encouraged to know some consequence of the lobby. When two representatives of the coalition attended a party in Texas with presence of Mr. Lamar Smith, Mr. Smith admitted that he was nervous, too, about the grave concern and aggressive reactions when his H.R. 1915 was evolved into more harsh H.R. 2202. He was concerned the latter would encounter more resistance in the House, which may eventually kill it. It may give us a signal: we should make him concerned much more! * * * * * 3. The preparation of "National Lobby Day", initiated by the Coalition, proceeded with elaboration of its details. The detailed schedule was discussed at the conference this morning again. The coalition urges all involved groups to send their delegates to D.C. to attend the lobby activities held on September 11 to 12. IFCSS Task Force urges the CSSAs or other CSS organizations, especially those in D.C. area, states of Virginia, Maryland, New Jesey, etc, could arrange their representatives - one to two people from each school, will be fine. Please contact IFCSS Headquarters at: hq@ifcss.org if any of CSSAs wants to do so. IFCSS has plenty of full packages ready to be used for congressional lobby. We can also mail it to you if you request it for regional lobby. Since this coalition will formally count the organizations, and participating people one week before the "Day", please contact the HQ as soon as possible. If you want to stay in D.C. for two days' events, the HQ will contact the relevant parties to arragne accomendations for you. ********************************************************************* * PBS-L is IFCSS's news distribution list for individuals. To sign * * on or off from the list, please send email to listserv@ifcss.org * * leave the subject line open and put in the mail body: * * (For signing on) sub PBS-L last name first name * * (For signing off) unsub PBS-L last name first name * * For more information about IFCSS, write to ifcss-info@ifcss.org * *********************************************************************