Does Your Representative Support Rural Housing Funding?

Thank you for your advocacy! With your help, Rep. Hinojosa (D-TX) and 77 other Representatives signed onto a Dear Colleague letter urging the Appropriations Committee to fully fund USDA Rural Housing programs. This is 15 more Representatives than last year’s letter and a whopping 49 Representatives more than in FY13.

Please remember to thank your Representatives for their support!

Did your Representative sign on?

A total of 78 Representatives signed on including: Barber, Benishek, Blumenauer, Bonamici, Bordallo, Brown, Brownley, Bustos, Butterfield, Capps, Carney, Cartwright, Castor, Christenson, Clay, Cleaver, Costa, Courtney, Davis, DeFazio, Delaney, DelBene, Ellison, Enyart, Esty, Fattah, Gabbard, Gallego, Garamendi, Al Green, Grijalva, Hanabusa, Alcee Hastings, Heck, Hinojosa, Holt, Huffman, Jackson Lee, Hank Johnson, Keating, Kildee, Kilmer, Kind, Kirkpatrick, Kuster, Langevin, Larsen, Lujan, Lujan Grisham, Lynch, Sean Maloney, Matsui, McIntyre, McNerney, Michaud, Neal, O’Rourke, Pierluisi, Pocan, Richmond, Ruiz, Runyan, Ruppersberger, Sablan, David Scott, Sewell, Shea-Porter, Takano, Bennie Thompson, Tonko, Vargas, Veasey, Vela, Walz, Waters, Welch, Wilson, and Don Young.

Another 3 Representatives–Crawford, Rahall, and Reed–submitted individual appropriations letters.

 

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