Dear friends,
Please contact your U.S. Representative and urge them to support the bipartisan bill H.R. 4373, the Making Adoption Affordable Act, which would allow the adoption tax credit to extend permanently in the future.
You can reach your Representative in the U.S. House of Representatives by calling the U.S. Capitol Operator at 202-225-3121 and asking for your Representative's office. If you don't know your Representative's name, go to http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/ and enter your zip code.
If you don't know what to say, here are some ideas:
-- I am a constituent in your district and the adoption tax credit is important to me. (It matters to me because...)
-- I urge the Representative to become a co-sponsor of The Making Adoption Affordable Act, H.R. 4373.
-- If Congress does not act, the credit as we now know it will expire in December, 2012.
-- H.R. 4373 is bipartisan and it supports all types of adoptions (domestic private, foster care, and international adoptions).
-- This tax credit has made adoption a more viable option for many parents who might not otherwise have been able to afford adoption, allowing them to provide children with loving, permanent families.
If you want to learn more about the adoption tax credit, go to http://adoptiontaxcredit.org/
Also, "like" the Save the Adoption Tax Credit on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/AdoptionTaxCredit
This adoption tax credit is an extremely important issue to our family and many people that we know. Although I can't say for certain that without it we wouldn't have been able to adopt (e.g., maybe we could have done lots of fundraising, worked extra jobs, sold the house and moved into something smaller, never eaten in a restaurant ever at all, no vacations, etc.), I can say that our life would look a whole lot different without it, and it is almost certain that our family would be smaller. The adoption tax credit has made it realistically possible for our family to adopt twice and to prepare to do it again.
Please call your Congressman's office. It will only take a few minutes, and they honestly do pay attention to calls from constituents.
Thank you so much!!