Government
Activities Committee (Part of PACE)
Joe Kalasky, Member
The Government Activities
Committee (GAC) is charged to help coordinate regional and state government
affairs activities with the IEEE U.S. Regions 1-6, and to encourage grassroots member
support of IEEE-USA’s national
legislative efforts.
CARE - Congressional Advocacy Recruitment Effort
Calling All IEEE Members! Click To Join CARE Now
In 2004 over 2,000
American IEEE members contacted their elected officials on behalf of their
profession. In 2005, IEEE-USA needs you to join them.
CARE is a voluntary network of IEEE members who are interested in public
policy. Each year Congress and state legislatures debate hundreds of bills that
could, if passed, directly impact technology engineers. From promoting
broadband to regulating our electrical grid; from funding basic research to
providing scholarships to engineering students, the legislative decisions
impact engineers’ careers in an unlimited number of ways.
CARE gives you an opportunity to influence your legislator’s decisions before
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what’s being discussed, how it will affect technology engineers, and what you
can do about it. We then give you an opportunity to quickly make your views
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CARE members are not obligated to respond to Action Alerts sent by IEEE-USA.
The Alerts just tell you what is happening. Doing something about it is your
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Joining CARE is easy. Just go to
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and you will automatically listed as a CARE member. As
new Alerts are posted, you will be notified by e-mail and given a easy way to respond.
This site is designed to
help American IEEE members coordinate public policy initiatives across state
and section boundaries. It is managed by the IEEE-USA Government Activities
Committee, which has been tasked with affecting legislative decisions in
Contact:
Russell T. Harrison
r.t.harrison@IEEE.ORG
Legislative
Representative - Grassroots Affairs
IEEE-USA
(202) 530-8326 Tell’em
Joe sent you!
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