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	<title>ONE &#187; Lobby Visits</title>
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		<title>Sweet Work Sweeney in PA!</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2008/08/06/sweet-work-sweeney-in-pa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2008/08/06/sweet-work-sweeney-in-pa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sweeney, ONE Volunteer, Jonestown, Pennsylvania</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lobby Visits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Carney]]></category>

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This Monday the 4th, I began our August &#8220;crunch&#8221; to meet with our respective Congressman and Senators while they are in recess.  Many members use the August congressional recess to host town halls and forums in their communities &#8211; so check out their websites for a schedule to meet up with yours.  If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swinging By Ros-Lehtinen&#8217;s Office</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2008/08/05/swinging-by-ros-lehtinens-office/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2008/08/05/swinging-by-ros-lehtinens-office/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Field</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lobbying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miami]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen]]></category>

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On Sunday Miami ONE Members in Miami, met with Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen to thank her for her leadership in the passage of PEPFAR (The President&#8217;s Emergency Plan For AIDS RElief) and for her continued support of policies to fight global disease and extreme poverty around the world. 
The congresswoman expressed tremendous appreciation for our efforts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Menendez Monday</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2008/03/19/menendez-monday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2008/03/19/menendez-monday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Simmons</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009 Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biden-Lugar Amendment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lobby Visits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lobbying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ONE Campus Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Robert Menendez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Students]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Great report back from Ross of SetonHall University of ONE students and members lobbying Senator Robert Menendez last Monday.

&#8220;Last week the luck of the Irish was with the ONE Campaign. New Jersey members of ONE and our partner organization CARE met with Senator Robert Menendez to discuss his support for several anti-poverty bills going through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lobbying For Uganda</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2008/03/14/lobbying-for-uganda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2008/03/14/lobbying-for-uganda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ONE.Partners</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Invisible Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lobbying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NGO Partner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda]]></category>

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(Mariana Blanco, Invisible Children&#8217;s filmmaker and editor, joined 1,000 young Americans to lobby Congress on the crisis in Northern Uganda.)
I had never been to lobby in DC before, and now that its been a few weeks, the best way I can describe the Northern Uganda Lobby Days is in familiar terms&#8211;it was like a film, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Times the Charm with Rep. Ros-Lehtinen</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2007/11/01/three-times-the-charm-with-rep-ros-lehtinen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2007/11/01/three-times-the-charm-with-rep-ros-lehtinen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Field</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lobby Visits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lobbying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen]]></category>

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On Tuesday, members of the ONE Miami group visited Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Miami office for the third time this year.
Ed Cooke from the United Nations Association got us the appointment and national Jubilee USA organizer Brian Swarts led the meeting. We were joined by Dr. Bradford Brown of the NAACP and Steve Forester, a Senior [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jubilee! 37 More Cosponsors!</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2007/10/26/jubilee-37-more-cosponsors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2007/10/26/jubilee-37-more-cosponsors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Simmons</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Debt Cancellation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jubilee Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jubilee USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lobbying]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During the last two weeks, ONE members sent more than 48,000 letters and made 4,200 calls to their members of Congress urging them to support the Jubilee Act.
Before we took these thousands of actions, there was a Jubilee bill in the House with just 52 cosponsors, and no companion bill in the Senate.
Now, after Jubilee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ONE Base Lobbies Rep. Space</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2007/10/24/one-base-lobbies-rep-space/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2007/10/24/one-base-lobbies-rep-space/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Field</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lobby Visits]]></category>

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On Monday the PACCAR Medical Education Center had a groundbreaking
ceremony in Chillicothe, Ohio. According to speakers at the ceremony,
the new educational facility will address such issues as advancements in
technology, the shortage in health care workers, economic development
and quality of life.  It seemed to be a perfect setting to discuss our
efforts to achieve the Millennium [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mission Accomplished</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2007/09/20/mission-accomplished/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2007/09/20/mission-accomplished/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie Andrews, ONE Regional Field Organizer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farm Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lobby Visits]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, members of the Farm Bill Working Group of Ohio went on a mission in downtown Columbus to deliver a faith-based sign-on letter to the offices of Senators Sherrod Brown and George Voinovich.  
As seen in the pictures, our team includes: Jerry Freewalt (Columbus Catholic Diocese), Mark Diemer (Grace of God Lutheran Church), Gini [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miami Lobbying II</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2007/09/18/miami-lobbying-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2007/09/18/miami-lobbying-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Field</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
On September 7, ONE Campaign Miami made its second visit of the year to Congresswoman Ileana  Ros-Lehtinen&#8217;s office.
Daniel Pedreira, her Congressional Aide, received us graciously and was genuinely interested in hearing about ONE. After introductions, Adam explained ONE and our fight against extreme poverty and treatable disease. Adam, Alix, Hannibal and Michael each described [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Lobbying: Easier Than You Think.</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2007/08/31/lobbying-easier-than-you-think/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2007/08/31/lobbying-easier-than-you-think/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Field</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lobby Visits]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, August 24, 2007, members from ONE and World Wings / CARE International met with Representative Lincoln Diaz-Balart at his district office in Miami.
The days leading up to the meeting were a bit nerve-racking since ONE member Ana M. Ortuno and I didn&#8217;t know what to expect.  We were both first-time lobbyists, and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>40</slash:comments>
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