The Senate hearing for SJR 25 (Cunningham) will start at 8am on Thursday morning, Jan. 28th in Senate Hearing Room 1 or 2. They are adjoining rooms. The House hearing for HJR57 (Jones) will follow at 9am. Each hearing will last one hour. The hearing room for the House will be posted when it is available.
Because of the time limitation, only a few people will get to speak. Therefore Sen. Cunningham and Rep. Jones are providing witness forms so everyone has the chance to enter comments into the public record and be counted.
If you submit a witness form, write in HEALTH CARE FREEDOM ACT where it asks for the bill number, fill in the rest of the form and fax it to 573-526-9852 or scan and email to Jane{dot}Cunningham{at}senate{dot}mo{dot}gov hopefully by early afternoon on Wednesday. We can enter these forms into the official record of both the House and the Senate and it will be impressive if the bill sponsors both submit a pile of witness forms when they present their bills in the committee hearings Thursday morning.
You may submit this form whether or not you come to the Capitol on Thursday.
We need as many folks at the Capitol as possible to send the message to all legislators that it would be smart to keep this growing grass roots army happy. Capitol visitors will be able to either watch the hearings directly in the hearing room, watch it on a monitor in spillover areas at the Capitol or on a laptop which they should bring in case the hearing rooms and spillover areas are full. The hearings will be live streamed at ATraditionalLifeLived.com. The hearings will also be on that same web site and www.conservativetvonline.com to watch at a future time.
While you are at the Capitol for the hearings, it is important to stop by your representative's and senator's offices to thank them for their support or ask if they will support the legislation. The House and Senate go into session at 10am right after the hearings end. It is fine to go to the side door of each chamber and ask the doorman to see if your legislator would be willing to come out to meet with a constituent for a few minutes. If not, leave your comments and contact information in their office with a request to respond.
There is public parking along the streets and a garage one block east of the Capitol on the corner of East Capitol and Madison (same intersection as the Governor's mansion).
If folks want to spend the night in Jefferson City the night before, there are numerous hotels but two that we know of offering discounts for this hearing are The Best Value Inn, 150 City Plaza in Holts Summit, 573-896-8787, $50 plus tax for 1 or 2 people in a room with 2 double beds (on Hwy. 54 about 10 minutes before you reach Jefferson City) and the Days Inn, 2100 Jefferson Street, Jefferson City, 573-761-3600, $60.99 plus tax. Make sure you mention you are in Jeff City for the Health Care hearing in order to get the discount. It is best to make a reservation because Jefferson City will be pretty full on Wednesday night. These hotels are clean and adequate but not fancy. More upscale and closeby hotels would be the Capitol Plaza, 573-635-1234, $149 for a suite with 1 king and a sofa sleeper (3 blocks from the Capitol) and Hotel DeVille, $78 "government rate" for a room with 2 double beds (4 blocks from the Capitol). Make sure they know Sen. Cunningham was told you can get the government rate.
Further questions:
Annette{at}IHeardThePeopleSay{dot}org
573-751-1186 or toll free 866-543-0420 Sen. Cunningham's office
573-751-0562 Rep. Tim Jones' office
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