06/03/2008	Joint Letter to House Energy and Commerce Committee About Proposed Health Information Technology Legislation
05/25/2008	Joint Letter Opposing Privatization at the Corps of Engineers
05/19/2008	Joint Letter in Support of House Resolution on Using Economic Stimulus to Buy American
05/15/2008	Joint Letter to Senator Byrd Opposing the Mikulski Amendment on H-2B Guest Workers
05/15/2008	Joint Letter to Senator Leahy about Privacy and Health Information Technology
05/13/2008	Joint Letter to House Armed Services Chair Opposing Privatization and Supporting Rights of Federal Employees
05/13/2008	Joint Letter Supporting Bill to Restore Collective Bargaining Rights for Veterans’ Administration Health Care Providers
05/12/2008	Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act of 2007 (S. 2123)
04/15/2008	Letter to House Energy and Commerce Committee in Support of Biogeneric Drugs
02/06/2008	Coalition letter to the Senate opposing S. 1145—The Patent Reform Act of 2007
02/06/2008	Coalition Letter To House Rules Committee Opposing So-Called ‘Academic Bill of Rights’
01/10/2008	Coalition Letter to Congressional Armed Services Committees About National Security Personnel System
12/10/2007	Joint Letter to Senate about Health Care Quality Act
11/15/2007	Coalition letter re. Renewable Portfolio Standard
10/15/2007	Coalition Letter in Support of Annual Fit Testing Requirement for Respirators as It Applies to TB
10/09/2007	Coalition Letter In Support of De-funding the National Security Personnel System
10/04/2007	Coalition Letter to House Judiciary Committee Opposing Permanent Internet Access Tax Ban
09/25/2007	Coalition Letter – Unions Oppose Permanent Internet Access Tax Ban
09/17/2007	Coalition Letter Opposing Privatization in ‘Wounded Warriors’ Legislation
09/12/2007	Coalition Letter Supporting Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act
09/10/2007	Coalition Letter to HHS Secretary about Proposal for Restructuring Oversight of Health Information Technology
08/01/2007	Letter to House re. support for the bipartisan National Security Personnel System amendment to FY08 Defense Appropriations Measure
07/24/2007	Coalition letter to House of Representatives in support of employer-provided educational assistance
07/17/2007	Coalition Letter about TB and Respirators
07/13/2007	Letter to House of Representatives re. RESPECT Act co-sponsorship
06/26/2007	Coalition Letter Urging Privacy and Security Framework in Wired for Health Care Quality Act
06/19/2007	DPE President Paul E. Almeida to Senate: Pass the Employee Free Choice Act!
06/12/2007	Letter to Senators Dorgan, Durbin, Sanders and Webb re. Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill (S.1348)
06/05/2007	Coalition Letter to Senate HELP Committee About Biogeneric Drugs
05/04/2007	Coalition Letter to Congressional Armed Services Committees About Reforms to Contracting Out
04/30/2007	President Almeida’s Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post
04/12/2007	Coalition letter to Appropriations Subcommittee Chair Calling for Health Information Technology Consumer Protection
04/09/2007	Coalition letter to House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science-Related Agencies re. Privatization
04/09/2007	Coalition letter to the Department of Labor re. Privatization
04/09/2007	Coalition letter to the Department of the Interior re. Privatization
03/20/2007	Coalition Letter to House and Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairs About Contracting Out
03/20/2007	Coalition Letter to House and Senate Energy and Water Committee Chairs About Corps of Engineers Privatization
03/20/2007	Coalition Letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committee Chairs About Federal Privatization and Contracting Out
03/06/2007	Letter to Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions re. March 7, 2007 hearing on “Strengthening American Competitiveness for the 21st Century
03/05/2007	Coalition Letter asking the Senate to provide Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers with collective bargaining and other civil service protections
02/20/2007	Consumer Coalition Letter 2-20-07 re GAO Report on HIT and Privacy - Chairman Dingell
02/16/2007	Consumer Coalition Letter re GAO Report on HIT and Privacy - HELP
02/14/2007	Coalition Letter to House re. Support Life-Saving Access to Medicine
02/14/2007	Coalition Letter to Senate re. Support Life-Saving Access to Medicine
02/01/2007	Consumer Proposals House HIT Bill
09/25/2006	Coalition letter re. opposition to proposals that would allow use of Veterans’ health care dollars for privatization reviews
09/11/2006	Coalition Letter Re. Retention Of Kennedy-Hatch Amendment In FY2007 Defense Appropriations Conference Report
07/25/2006	Joint labor letter opposing HR 5766 and HR 3282, the “Government Efficiency Act” and the “Abolishment of Obsolete Agencies and Federal Sunset Act,” to establish one or more sunset commissions to review federal agencies and programs, including entitlement programs, to determine whether they should be terminated, continued or changed
07/24/2006	Joint labor letter to House of Representatives opposing H.R. 1956, the Business Activity Tax Simplification Act
07/10/2006	Joint Labor letter to Senate re. Mikulski/Specter Amendment to Commerce-State-Justice Appropriations Bill contracting out (privatization) of federal work
06/13/2006	Letter to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin supporting multi-casting, must-carry rules for DTV rollout
05/08/2006	Coalition Letter re. Funding for HHS-Education and Labor Department Programs and Services
04/05/2006	Letter to Senate opposing pending immigration bill because of massive increases in H-1B guest worker visas
04/04/2006	Testimony File for the hearing record of the House Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee on H-1B visas
03/14/2006	Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee re. 2006 guest worker bill
03/07/2006	Coalition Letter Opposing S. 1955
03/06/2006	Coalition Fact Sheet re. Health Information Technology: Consumer Principles
03/06/2006	Coalition letter to House and Senate re Copyright Awareness Week
12/12/2005	Comments on Office of the Inspector General Proposed Rule OIG-405-P
12/12/2005	Comments on Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Proposed Rule CMS-1303-P
12/07/2005	Letter to Representatives Sensenbrenner and Conyers; Senators Specter and Leahy re. H-1B proposal in 2005 Budget Reconciliation Bill
12/06/2005	Letter to Senators Boxer, Durbin and Schumer; and Rep. Weiner re. Viacom-CBS
11/04/2005	Coalition letter to Senate re. S. 1182: Veterans’ Health Care Act of 2005
11/01/2005	Letter to Senate urging support for Byrd Amendment (re. H-1B visas) to S. 1932—Budget Reconciliation Bill
10/14/2005	Letter to Senate Judicary Committee re. Budget Reconciliation Proposal
10/07/2005	Coalition letter to Commission on Systemic Interoperability re. supporting current state health privacy laws
09/28/2005	Coalition Letter re. Section 8014 of the Defense Appropriations Bill: Health Care Law
09/26/2005	Coalition letter to AHIC Consumer Advocate Nancy Davenport Ennis re. Health Information Technology Initiative
09/26/2005	Coalition letter to HHS Secretary Michael O. Leavitt re. American Health Information Community’s Health Information Technology Initiative
08/15/2005	Letter to Senate Commerce Committee re. DTV Transition Legislation
08/05/2005	AHIC David Lansky Nomination Coalition letter
07/25/2005	Letter to House on Association Health Plans
07/20/2005	Letter to House Commerce Committee re. DTV Transition Legislation
06/27/2005	Joint labor letter to House re. Van Hollen amendment to fy ‘06 Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development bill to ensure that federal agencies use a fair public-private competition process before federal jobs are privatized
05/23/2005	Letter to Senate re. Filibuster
05/11/2005	Coalition letter to House Commerce Committee opposing H.R. 1201 that would effectively repeal key copyright protections of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998
04/21/2005	Letter to U.S. Senators Lugar, Biden, Frist, and Reid re. Cybercrime Convention
04/07/2005	Letter to California Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee re. SB 382
04/06/2005	Letter to U.S. Senate Commerce Committee re. S.193
02/08/2005	Letter to House Energy and Commerce Committee re. HR 310: The Broadcast Indecency Enforcement Act
02/01/2005	Letter to FCC Commissioners Copps and Adelstein re. DTV-multicasting
01/10/2005	Letter from President Almeida to BLS Commissioner Utgoff re. Discontinuation of Data Collection on Women Workers
07/08/2004	Coalition Sign-on Letter to Senate Opposing S. 2062 Restricting Class Action Lawsuits
11/16/2004	Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee re. Omnibus Appropriations Bill
09/13/2004	Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee re. S.1635 Substitute Bill
09/08/2004	Letter to House re. Overtime Pay
07/07/2004	Letter to House Appropriations Committee re. Worker Retraining Program.
06/04/2004	Press Release re. impact of off-shore outsourcing on revised BLS job growth projections
05/24/2004	Letter to the California General Assembly in support of S.B. 1034 re. reform of accounting practices in recording industry to better protect royalty rights/payments for recording artists.
05/11/2004	Letter to Senate Judiciary committee urging amendments to S. 1635, L-1 visa legislation
05/03/2004	Letter to Senate re S.1637 and Harkin Amendment on overtime rules
05/03/2004	Senate letter regarding Harkin Amendment
02/20/2004	DPE/AFL-CIO Response: Industry Lobby ITAA Distorts Facts on Off-shore Contracts (Maryland H.B. 183)
02/05/2004	Testimony of Paul Almeida before the Maryland House of Delegates Committee on Health and Government Operations re. HB 183 to prohibit the off-shore outsourcing of state contracts
02/04/2004	Testimony of Mike Gildea before the House International relations Committee re. L-1 visa abuse
10/17/2003	Letter to House re: Stop FCC Repeal of Media Ownership Rules
10/16/2003	Coalition sign-on letter to House urging support for H.R. 1738 re. allocation of federal spending for domestic needs identical to Bush administration spending request for Iraq
10/09/2003	Letter to House Conferees re: H.R. 2660 / Overtime Pay
10/09/2003	Letter to Senate Conferees re: H.R. 2660 / Overtime Pay
09/25/2003	Letter of Support for the "Simplified Sales and Use Tax Act"
09/15/2003	Democracy Works Overtime (at Alternet.org)
09/04/2003	Appropriations Committee Urged to Support Feinstein Amendment re USTR
09/03/2003	Senate Appropriations Committee urged to support Amendments to H.R. 2799 re: Media Ownership
09/02/2003	53 Organizations Join DPE Letter to Protect Overtime Pay
08/28/2003	House Urged to Co-sponsor HR 2702: DeLauro/Shays Visa Reform Bill
08/27/2003	Homeland Security Letter (PDF format)
08/06/2003	Senate Urged to Support S. 1046
08/06/2003	AFL-CIO Resolution: Reform the H-1B and L-1 Guest Worker Visa Programs
07/29/2003	DPE Exec. Director Testimony re: L1-Visa Program
07/22/2003	Letter to House Members re: H-1B and L-1 Guest Worker Visas for Singapore and Chile
07/22/2003	Letter to Rep. Hinchey re: Amendment to HR 2799
07/15/2003	Overtime: DOL-HHS Appropriations Bill
06/18/2003	Testimony of Paul Almeida Before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Small Business On the Globalization of White Collar Jobs
06/16/2003	Letter to Senate Commerce Committee re: S 1046
05/15/2003	Letter of Support for SB 1034 / Royalty Accounting
04/15/2003	Letter to Representative Duncan Hunter re: Journalist Safety in Iraq
04/11/2003	Letter to House re: FCC Notice of Proposed Rule-Making
04/09/2003	Letter to Senate re: FCC Notice of Proposed Rule-Making
04/09/2003	Letter to Secretary Donald Rumsfeld re: Journalist Safety in Iraq
03/14/2003	John Sweeney letter to FCC Chairman Powell
02/26/2003	AFL-CIO Statement: Media Monopolies: A Threat to American Democracy
12/10/2002	Critique of the FCC Studies on Media Ownership (PDF file)

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