Legislative Efforts

Access our Legislative Action Center to check your legislators’ positions on key issues, contact your elected officials and view details on all the legislation affecting you and your family as well as information on how to contact your elected official to make a change.

A message from our Legislative Chair

PLEASE — AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH — GO TO THE TAKE ACTION INITIATIVE ABOVE (#1), AND THIS WILL TAKE YOU TO MOAA’S LEGISLATIVE ACTION CENTER.  Choose a bill from the list, click on the red text, then enter your zip code on the right-hand side of the page that follows.  When you hit “GO” — you’ll see a pre-written letter (you can change/add to it if you like) which will be e-mailed to our U.S. Senators/U.S. Congress persons.  To send an e-mail message to President Biden, click here, or use the following URL: https://whitehouse.gov/contact

2024 is an IMPORTANT YEAR and we can’t do it without you. 

We need to make phone calls and send e-mails, to ensure our legislators promote and vote for legislation which will benefit the entire military family:  active duty servicemembers, retired, veterans, families, and not to forget military surviving spouses.  If we want these legislators to fight for us, they must hear from us, and we need to explain why our legislative issues are important.

What happens on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. each day:

Numbers count.  At the end of each day U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives ask their office staff how many of their constituents contacted them and what were their interests.  They keep a tally of the number of constituents who call each day, and also the number of people who ask about each legislative issue or bill in Congress. 

This is what it means to participate in grassroots advocacy. 

Democracy is not a spectator sport.  We must do something:  call, send e-mails; visit legislators and their staff in the local offices.  You don’t need to go to Washington, D.C. to be effective.

— Call:  866-272-6622  This is the Capitol Switchboard.  Give the operator your zip code, and you will be connected to your Congressman or Senator.  Ask to speak to a staff person who handles the Armed Services Committee, or ask for the Military Legislative Assistant.  Ask for support and co-sponsorship and their votes for H.R. —- (House) and/or  S. —- (Senate).  Get the name, title and e-mail address of the person you talk with, and follow up with an e-mail about your legislative issue.

It is well worth it, to take the time to do this.  This is our responsibility as a citizen of the USA.

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Do you have questions on such matters as Veterans Affairs, Defense Spending, Tricare, or others?  Contact your military representative below:

• For Dina Titus – U.S. House of Representatives, Nevada’s 1st Congressional District, contact Daniel Carranza at Daniel.Carranza@mail.house.gov
• For Mark Amodei – U.S. House of Representatives, Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District, contact Legislative Director:  Ken Brooke  ken.brooke@mail.house.gov or Constituent Service Representative:  Debbie Balsinger – Reno  775-686-5760
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• For Susie Lee – U.S. House of Representatives, Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District, contact Andrew Holbert at Andrew.Holbert@mail.house.gov
• For Steven Horsford – U.S. House of Representatives, Nevada’s 4th Congressional District, contact Larry Hamm at Larry.Hamm@mail.house.gov
• For  Catherine Cortez Masto – U.S. Senate, Nevada’s senior Senator, contact Alanna Simpson at Alanna_Simpson@cortezmasto.senate.gov
• For Jacky Rosen – U.S. Senate, Nevada’s junior Senator, contact Brendan Vargas at brendan_vargas@rosen.senate.gov

National Initiatives

Check out MOAA’s Legislative Priorities for the 118th Congress

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