Senator Durbin Credits ONE for Water Co-Sponsors

Oct 29th, 2009 6:06 PM UTC
By Chris Scott

Today at an event at the National Press Club hosted by The Atlantic, participants gathered to discuss domestic and international water and sanitation issues.

While speaking about the Water for the World Act, which Senator Durbin introduced, ONE members got a nice shout-out. As you know, we launched our Water for the World campaign earlier this year, which included a special message from Matt Damon to ONE members in June. In the process, ONE collected the names of over 100,000 people who supported improving access to clean water and sanitation for the world’s poorest people.

Here’s what Senator Durbin had to say:

As I said, we introduced our bill in March. By mid-June we had six Senate co-sponsors.

Then the ONE Campaign launched a campaign with other non-profits to enlist more co-sponsors.

Matt Damon, the actor, is the spokesperson for that effort. I don’t know if he used the old Bourne Ultimatum or what, but whatever he said is working. We now have 26 co-sponsors — Democrats, Republicans and Independents – as well as the Majority Leader.

TAGS: ONE, Sen. Richard Durbin, Water for the World Act of 2009