{"id":7004,"date":"2017-11-27T11:56:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T16:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gsa.buffalo.edu\/?p=7004"},"modified":"2017-11-27T11:56:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T16:56:27","slug":"nagps-action-plan-call-congress-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/2017\/11\/27\/nagps-action-plan-call-congress-day\/","title":{"rendered":"NAGPS Action Plan, Call Congress Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, the House&#8217;s plan includes tax\u200bing\u00a0 tuition waivers, and eliminates deductions for people paying off their \u200bstudent \u200bloans.\u200b<\/p>\n<p>\u200bThe next step is to convince \u200bCongress to remove these provisions during reconciliation of the House and Senate plans.<\/p>\n<p>Attached is \u200ba summary of our action plan for the upcoming weeks. Here is our event page for upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1739777652761775\/?active_tab=about\">Call Congress Days<\/a> including a call script for addressing \u200b\u200bSection 117(d) when speaking with the offices of your Senators and Congressional Representatives. Here is our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/us-remove-provisions-increasing-tax-burden-on-students-and-higher-education-from-the-tax-plan?recruiter=836068546&amp;utm_source=share_petition&amp;utm_medium=copylink&amp;utm_campaign=share_petition&amp;utm_term=share_petition\">petition<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/change.org\">change.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gsa.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Action-Plan-NAGPS.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7005\" src=\"http:\/\/gsa.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Action-Plan-NAGPS.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u200bPlease share these with your constituents and campus partners.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bPlease also share your call day results with us, and use #ReworkTheReform on social media\u200b. Thank you for your efforts.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions feel free to email <a href=\"mailto:legislative@nagps.org\">legislative@nagps.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Best,<\/p>\n<p>Joe<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Verardo<br \/>\nVice-President<br \/>\nNational Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/?q=1050+K+Street+NW+%23400+Washington,+DC+20001&amp;entry=gmail&amp;source=g\">1050 K Street NW #400<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/?q=1050+K+Street+NW+%23400+Washington,+DC+20001&amp;entry=gmail&amp;source=g\">Washington, DC 20001<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nagps.org\/\">http:\/\/www.nagps.org<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nagps\/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, the House&#8217;s plan includes tax\u200bing\u00a0 tuition waivers, and eliminates deductions for people paying off their \u200bstudent \u200bloans.\u200b \u200bThe next step is to convince \u200bCongress to remove these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/2017\/11\/27\/nagps-action-plan-call-congress-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NAGPS Action Plan, Call Congress Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}