It is critical that all interested members of Industry immediately contact the members of the House Armed Services Committee listed below. Next week, the Committee will consider the Department of Defense's FY2000 Defense Authorization bill and DoD's Full Service Moving Program (FSMP) is a part of that bill. Unless you communicate immediately with your member of Congress, the Department of Defense will implement the FSMP by this fall, which will effectively eliminate any hope for a small business to continue to move military traffic for 10% of the entire marketplace. The full-service moving program will be implemented in the Washington DC military District, (VA, MD, DC; Colorado, Georgia, and South Dakota).

We know that Congress will soon consider a solution to the issues that still divides our industry and the DoD. The points that must be raised in your communication to the members of the committee are:

- During the hearing that the Committee convened in March, Chairman

Bateman urged industry and the DoD to work together on the issues that still separate us. We have met repeatedly with the DoD in an effort to resolve these differences. While we have come close to resolution on almost all of the issues, there are four issues that still separate us. There does not seem to be any chance of resolution to these issues in the near future.

- The four issues are: direct claims settlement; payment of commissions; small business as prime contractor; and, the traffic distribution methodology.

- If Congress does not provide some statutory language to address these outstanding issues of dispute, then the struggle between industry and the DoD to implement a re-engineered household goods moving program will continue. Remind the Congressional representative that this issue has festered for five years. We can resolve the issue now if Congress will take action to address the few remaining issues in dispute. If not, we will have more years of fighting and delay in securing the improvements to the program that everyone agrees are needed.

1) Please write and fax everyone on the contact list please tell them as a company doing business and employing individuals in your district your continued ability to remain in business is threatened by DoD's FSMP Plan. The FSMP as conceived by DoD will eliminate the quality small and medium size companies in the industry from this procurement and place 10% of the military Household Goods market into the hands of one Mega company.

2) Forward a copy of your faxes and letters to (703) 660-9240

3) If you have time, Please follow-up with a phone call

4) Remember, the Committee needs to hear from Industry in mass by Wednesday, May12, 1999. Remember it's your company, Industry and livelihood. Please act today

TARGET LIST

US House of Representative

Washington, DC 20515

Herbert H. Bateman R-VA, Chairman 225-4261

225-4382

Solomon P. Ortiz D-TX, Ranking Member 225-7742

226-1134

Saxby Chambliss R-GA 225-6531

225-3013

Norman Sisisky D-VA 225-6365

226-1170

Walter B. Jones R-NC 225-3415

225-3286

John Spratt, Jr. D-SC 225-5501

225-0464

Robert R. Riley R-AL 225-3261

225-5827

Owen B. Pickett D-VA 225-4215

225-4218

Duncan L. Hunter R-CA 225-5672

225-0235

Robert Underwood D-GU 225-1118

226-0431

James V. Hansen R-UT 225-0453

225-5857

Rod Blagojevich D-IL 225-4061

225-5603

Curt Weldon R-PA 225-2011

225-8137

Adam Smith D-WA 225-8901

225-5893

Tillie Fowler R-FL 225-2501

225-9318

James Talent R-MO 225-2561

225-2563

Mike McIntyre D-NC 225-2731

225-5773

Terry Everett R-AL 225-2901

225-8913

Ciro Rodriguez D-TX 225-1640

225-1641

James Gibbons R-NV 225-6155

225-5679

Don Sherwood R-PA 225-3731

225-9594

United States Senate

Washington, DC 20510

James M. Inhofe R-OK Chairman 224-4721

228-0380

Charles Robb D-VA, Ranking Member 224-4024

224-8689

Strom Thurmond R-SC 224-5972

224-1300

Jeff Bingaman D-NM 224-5521

224-2852

John McCain R-AZ 224-2235

228-2862

Robert C. Byrd D-WV 224-3954

228-0002

Richard J. Santorum R-PA 224-6324

228-0604

Joseph M. Cleland D-GA 224-3521

224-0072

Pat Roberts R-KS 224-4774

224-3514

Mary Landrieu D-LA 224-5824

224-9735

Tim Hutchinson R-AR 224-2353

228-3973

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