USHLI: Making
a Difference
October 20 Weekly Update
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Upcoming Dates
USHLI Regional Student Leadership
Conferences
Southeast
Disney's Coronado
Springs Resort
Orlando, FL
November 6-7, 2009
Other USHLI Conferences
Latino Students en Marcha - Career and College Fair
St. Augustine College
Chicago, IL
October 22, 2009
Hacia Metas Mas Altas- Reaching for Higher Ground Conference
Purdue University Calumet
Hammond, IN
November 6, 2009
USHLI National Conference
Sheraton Chicago
Hotel & Towers
Chicago, IL
February 17-20, 2010
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| Time to Defeat Vitter-Bennett Amendment Once and For All! |
 The pressure is working! The letters and phone calls pouring in to the offices of targeted Senators is paying off, as the Senate continues to hold off a vote on what would be a disastrous amendment to the appropriations bill for Commerce, Justice and Science (CJS). The bill is crucial to funding the 2010 Census, which the Vitter-Bennett amendment would torpedo.
The strategy now is to contact Senate Democrats and urge them to vote for cloture on the appropriations bill, which would effectively render the Vitter-Bennett amendment irrelevant to the bill and kill its forward progress.
If the cloture vote fails, a vote on the Vitter-Bennett amendment will be scheduled and we will need everyone to contact targeted Senators again and urge them to vote no. Passage of the amendment would have the following adverse affects:
- irresponsibly waste
7.7 billion of dollars
- violate existing
U.S. law that requires the Census Bureau to submit the topics to be
asked in the decennial enumeration to Congress three years in advance and the
actual questions two years in advance
- delay implementation
of the Census on April 1, 2010
- preclude the Census
Bureau from presenting to the President of the United States a complete
enumeration of the American people by January 1, 2011 as required by
the Constitution
- preclude the Census
Bureau from meeting the April 1, 2011 deadline for releasing Census
data to the American people for the purpose of redistricting as required
by the Constitution
- virtually ensure
that millions of undocumented workers and possibly all non-citizens
will not respond to the Census effectively depriving cities and states
of tens of billions of dollars in federal funds over the coming decade
Click here for a list of Senate Democrats to call and urge them to support a cloture vote.
Click here for a list of targeted Senators to call and urge them to vote against the Vitter-Bennett amendment in the event the cloture vote fails.
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Career Day to be Held this Thursday
at St. Augustine College in Chicago |
 USHLI will sponsor a Career Day this Thursday, October 22, from 9:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at St. Augustine College, located at 1345 West Argyle Street. High school students will hear Dr. Rosita Lopez, a nationally prominent motivational speaker, obtain information on financial aid, and explore the numerous opportunities that St. Augustine has to offer. The Career Day is free and open to all students who will receive a light lunch, courtesy of St. Augustine's culinary students.
Counselors, students, and other interested persons are urged to contact Isabel Reyes or Ricardo Lopez for more information on attending our Career Day at St. Augustine College. Both can be reached at 312-427-8683 or ireyes@ushli.org and rlopez@ushli.org, respectively.
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| Coming Soon: Southeast Student Leadership Conference in Orlando, FL |
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The last of USHLI's five 2009 regional student leadership conferences will
be held November 6-7, 2009, at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, FL.
Addressing the Southeast Student Leadership Conference will be Pegine
Echevarria, MSW, Dr. Juan Andrade, Jr. , and Andres Lara. Students from
Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, and Florida are expected to attend.
The conference will open with team building exercises starting at 6:00 p.m. on Friday. On Saturday, starting at 9:00 a.m., students will hear nationally prominent speakers, attend workshops on advanced leadership skills development training, receive information on graduate school, gain exposure to career opportunities, and learn how to get involved in the
2010 Census. College scholarships will be awarded through a grant from Verizon. The conference will conclude at 5pm.
Click here to register online and/or to download the agenda for the two-day conference.
Graduate school
recruiters, advisors, and students are urged to contact Isabel Reyes
or Ricardo Lopez for more information on our Southeast regional student
leadership conference. Both can be reached at (312) 427-8683 or ireyes@ushli.org and rlopez@ushli.org, respectively.
Sponsors of
USHLI's 2009 regional student leadership conference series have included
Verizon, Walt Disney World, AARP, the University of Phoenix and Southwest
Airlines. Potential sponsors for our 2010 leadership conference
series are urged to contact Tammy Deavours at (312) 371-8683 or tdeavours@ushli.org.
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| Thought for the Week |
"I
promise you I will listen to what has been said
here, even though I wasn't here."
-- George W. Bush, speaking at President's Economic
Forum, Waco, Texas, August 2002
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