Last couple of weeks, I've found myself boring the heck out of interns Jaylene, Analisa and Sarah by spewing out random 70's and 80's pop culture references that - at the moment anyway - seemed appropriate to the latest task we were working to cross off our Day of Action "to do" list.
And so it happens again as I reflect back on yesterday. The Day of Action is over, to which I reply...
"Over, Did you say over? Nothing is over until we decide it is!"
And so we continue. Intern Sarah is back over on the Hill this afternoon, her MorePeaceCorps canvas bag loaded with outreach materials to 85 more House offices. A fresh wave of advocates from California, Colorado and New York are due in tomorrow for more meetings with their lawmakers. We'll look to finalize the House information distribution tomorrow, and turn our attention to the Senate next week, when we hope to have a Dear Colleague letter circulating.
Still taking stock of the flurry of activity yesterday. 32 great volunteers were all over the Capitol, working in teams, covering 79 pre-arranged meetings, connecting with foreign affairs staff in many congressional offices getting face time with at least a dozen lawmakers (including Kevin Quigley and Rajeev Goyal meeting for several minutes with Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, making the case for the Peace Corps Enhancement Act of 2009 and urging sign-on to the Peace Corps Dear Colleague letter that's circulating.
There's a lot of follow up work to be done and we are just beginning that process. We should starting getting the first updates on additional 1066 co-sponsors and initial House signers of the Peace Corps letter.
So we continue. It's not over. "We've only just begun" starts down another bad culture reference, so it's much better to simply say keep visiting www.morepeacecorps.org, keep taking action and getting others to do the same.
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