If you cannot attend Wednesday's fly-in for H-2B Advocacy Day, you can still support the effort wherever you are. Please take a few minutes this week to call your elected officials and tweet at them about the urgent need for H-2B cap relief. Please do the following:

• Call your two Senators and your Representative. If you do not know their direct numbers, you can reach them through the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 225-3121 (Find your Colorado reps' contact infohere ). Once connected to the office, ask to speak to the person to handles H-2B issues and tell him or her how important the H-2B program is to you. Ask them to:
• Re-instate the H-2B returning worker for the remainder of fiscal year 2017 and for fiscal year 2018.
• Ask your Senators to cosponsor S. 792, the bipartisan “Save our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act.”
• Ask your Representative to cosponsor HR 2004, the “Strengthen Employment and Seasonal Opportunities Now (SEASON) Act.”
• If your elected officials have sponsored H-2B legislation, written letters in support of the program, or assisted you with H-2B processing issues, say “thank you” and encourage them to keep up the fight. 
• Tweet about the need to pass H-2B cap relief. Encourage Congress to act by using #saveH2B and directing tweets at your elected officials.
• Encourage your employees, co-workers, customers and other local businesses to call and tweet their local officials. 

Please tweet at your Senators and Representative using #SaveH2B. You can find their twitter address at: twitter.com/verified/lists/us-congress/members or on this document .

The best tweets are those that you personalize to your member of Congress and that are specific to your state. For example:

• ‪@HouseAppropsGOP Help #saveH2B. Pass H-2B cap relief now!
• @AppropsDems Help #saveH2B. Pass H-2B cap relief now!
• @RepMikeCoffman CO landscape businesses cannot survive unless Congress passes H-2B cap relief now! #saveH2B
• @SenateApprops Help #saveH2B. Pass H-2B relief now!
• @SenJohnHoeven ND businesses need LEGAL seasonal workers. Renew the H-2B cap relief & save American jobs #saveH2B

Additional Sample Tweets to be directed at your Senators and Representative:

• H-2B Cap Hit! Congress must renew the H-2B returning worker exemption now! #saveH2B
• The H-2B program relies on workers who come to the U.S. for seasonal work, then go home. We need H-2B cap relief now #saveH2B
• Every H-2B worker creates and sustains 4.64 American jobs. Renew the H-2B returning worker exemption now! #saveH2B
• #saveH2B and save American Jobs! Pass H-2B cap relief now! 
• H-2B program = more American jobs. Renew H-2B cap relief now. #saveH2B
• H-2B workers support American jobs. Pass H-2B cap relief now #saveH2B
• Save the spring and summer. Renew H-2B cap relief now! #saveH2B
• #SaveH2B pass S 792 and HR 2004.

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