Date: October 28, 2025 To: All LWVOR Members From: Mark Kendall, LWVOR President Jean Pierce, LWVOR Advocacy Chair TAKE ACTION: 1. Contact your Congressional legislators to end the shutdown while protecting Healthcare: Fight to end the government shutdown and at the same time extend Affordable Care Act subsidies (affecting more than 340,000 Oregonians) Pressure the USDA to release the SNAP contingency funds Congress approved for November and to supplement it with other