Call to action on bill to restore partnership
NACo members can help support the Restore the Partnership Act of 2009, H.R. 3332, by contacting members of their congressional delegations and encouraging them to cosponsor this legislation. They can be reached by calling the Capitol switchboard at 202/224-3121.
U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) introduced the bill, cosponsored by Rep. Leonard Lance (R-N.J.), which would establish a National Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, a key legislative priority for NACo. Its aim is to facilitate the fullest cooperation and coordination between all levels of government. NACo’s Finance and Intergovernmental Affairs Steering Committee passed a resolution in support of H.R. 3332 at the association’s recent annual conference. Connolly is the former chair of the Fairfax County, Va. Board of Supervisors.
As a part of NACo’s Restore the Partnership Campaign, the association’s leadership has been working to establish a National Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (NCIR). NCIR would establish a permanent, independent, bipartisan group to study and consider the federal government’s intergovernmental relationships and the nation’s intergovernmental machination.
The 30-member commission would represent the interests of the federal system’s intergovernmental partners. The body would be the only established, freestanding part of the federal system in which the views of the federal government’s intergovernmental partners could be openly aired, and in which difficulties and inefficiencies in the federal system’s intergovernmental relationships could be examined.
To read the full text of the bill, visit NACo’s homepage at www.naco.org „ “Restore the Partnership” „ “HR 3332 Legislation.”
If you have questions about these briefings please contact Kasia Witkowski at 202/942-4225 or by e-mail at kwitkowski@naco.org, or Steve Traylor at 202/942-4254 or straylor@naco.org.
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