May 12, 2009

Dear Friend,Your calls and letters are making a difference on H.R. 2139, the Initiating Foreign Assistance Reform Act of 2009. However, we need your help since we only have a brief window of opportunity to gather cosponsors for this important bill. Next Wednesday, May 20, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will take up H.R. 2139.  We need your representative to cosponsor this bill before that time.  Additional cosponsors will demonstrate that there is broad support in Congress for foreign assistance reform to make it more effective in reducing poverty.  The next eight days are critical.Please call your representative right now using our special hotline, 1-800-826-3688. This is a direct line to the Capitol switchboard where you will ask to be connected to your representative’s office.  Once you are connected to that office, tell them, "I urge << your representative’s name >> to cosponsor H.R. 2139 to reform foreign aid and make it more effective in reducing poverty."  That's all you need to do to make a huge difference for poor and hungry people today. Thank you for taking action.  Grace and peace,

Rev. David Beckmann
President, Bread for the World