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URGENT ACTION NEEDED
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NOTIFICATION TO EAA MEMBERS
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EAA President
Tom Poberezny
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The future of general aviation in
the United States is at stake. Your voice and the voices of
your friends and neighbors are needed now to fight the
immediate threat of user fees.
"The first user
fee is just the first step. This is serious business, and it's
extremely important that members get involved and stay
involved."
- Tom Poberezny, EAA
President
Your action is required now to
protect general aviation. Speak out against user fees. Contact
your senators and representatives today. Voice support for
House bill H.R. 2881, which would provide funding without user
fees, and object to the user fees proposed in Senate bill S.
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Your comments must be received by
Congress before it returns to work September 7 after its summer
holiday.
The time is NOW!
When your representatives and senators
return after Labor Day, the debate on user fees for general aviation
will have reached its climax, and lawmakers will develop a final
bill to send to President Bush for signature within weeks, or even
days.
Aviation's friends in
Washington, D.C. urge you to act
 At EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2007,
eight members of Congress urged EAA members and other aviation
enthusiasts to write their elected representatives and the
administration.
"I urge general aviation pilots to stay
in touch (with their elected leaders) and to be clear about the
problems with general aviation user fees."
-
Representative Sam Graves, R-Missouri
"We need to keep
Congress from opening the door to a whole new bureaucracy that could
hit general aviation hard in the years to come."
-
Senator James Inhofe, R-Oklahoma
Act NOW!
Write your senators and representatives.
EAA has provided sample
letters to assist you. Don't delay - act to protect your
participation in general aviation.
Airlines are ramping up
pressure
The airlines are pulling out all the
stops, reaching literally millions of their customers via extensive
e-mail lists, in-flight publications, and closed-circuit TV
advertisements in terminals. The message from their lobbying group,
the Air Transport Association (ATA), is that general aviation is to
blame for the airlines' financial and operational woes, that general
aviation should pay considerably more for use of the nation's
airspace and federal services, and that the airlines should pay
less.
To confront airline rhetoric and
lobbying, every participant in general aviation must rally against
user fees.
For sample letters to send
to Congress, visit www.EAA.org/govt/sample_letters.html
To follow EAA's proactive
advocacy on your behalf, visit www.EAA.org/userfees.
Questions? e-mail govt@EAA.org
Don't delay ... Act
TODAY!
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Chapter 27 - Critical EAA Member Dispatch
