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Want to Know How You Can Help? Be an ADVOCATE. Advocates Alert: Congressmen Thompson and Camp introduce conservation incentive bill -- cosponsors needed! Representatives Mike Thompson (D-CA) and Dave Camp (R-MI) introduced H.R.1576, a bill to make the newly expanded tax incentive for conservation easement donations permanent! The bill was introduced with 22 cosponsors: Representatives Ron Kind (D-WI), Jim McDermott (D-WA), Eric Cantor (R-VA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), John Lewis (D-GA), Ben Chandler (D-KY), Jim Saxton (R-NJ), Jim Gerlach (R-PA), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE), Ellen Tauscher (D-CA), Darrell Issa (R-CA), Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), George Radanovich (R-CA), Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD), Randy Kuhl (R-NY), Patrick Murphy (D-PA), Steve Israel (D-NY), Dennis Cardoza (D-CA), Vernon Ehlers (R-MI), Tim Bishop (D-NY) and Scott Garrett (R-NJ). Please contact your Representative today and ask them to cosponsor the bill! Tell them how important this tax incentive is to land conservation in your local community and to your conservation work. To find your representative visit www.house.gov . For more information including talking points go to http://www.lta.org/publicpolicy/tax_incentives_updates.htm . Your Representative can be added as a cosponsor by contacting Elizabeth Thomas for Congressman Thompson at 202-225-3311or Joanna Foust for Congressman Camp at 202-225-3561. We will keep you updated as events progress and will alert you to special opportunities to contact to your Representatives to move this bill forward. If you have a special connection with a member of Congress email policy@lta.org ! Thanks!
Sign up to be a Land Trust ADVOCATE at: http://www.lta.org/publicpolicy/advocates.htm
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