Recent/on-going Lobbying Efforts

•   Affordable health insurance (i.e. prescription drug coverage)

•   No tier 5

•   Fix or repeal the flawed Medicare reform bill

•   Protect Social Security from privatization

•   Help push for permanent annual moratorium bill that protects your health insurance in retirement

•   Retirement at 55/25

•   CFE

•   BOCES aid not being fully restored

•   Rejection of the governor's plan for special education cuts

•   Rejection of plan to increase SUNY/CUNY tuition by $500

•   Approval of a 2 million dollar nursing recruitment

•   Approval of loan forgiveness program for nurses seeking graduate degrees

•   Approval of home health care demonstration grants