What a coincidence!
Over the last two weeks, ONE members have been active in reaching out to their respective senators throughout the country in response to the drastic cuts made in the House involving life-saving programs in the poorest place on earth.
Here in Pennsylvania, we have been writing letters to our senators and making phone calls to urge bipartisan leadership in the Senate to help fight extreme poverty and global disease around the world. But yesterday, my colleague Christopher Geer ran into Senator Casey in Philadelphia at the train station.
Senator Casey immediately recognized ONE and Chris made sure to tell the senator all about our actions as ONE members and our upcoming meeting with his office. At the meeting, we will be asking that Senator Casey fight to ensure that there are no cuts to poverty-fighting programs in the upcoming Senate short-term funding bill. Senator Casey told Chris that he would work hard to make sure that those life-saving programs are better funded and even took a ONE pin from Chris before taking an impromptu photo for the ONE blog. Way to go Chris! Go ONE!
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