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                                                             ISSN 1069-7799
                                  ALAWON
                      ALA Washington Office Newsline
                     An electronic publication of the
              American Library Association Washington Office

                            Volume 4, Number 5
                             January 24, 1995

   In this issue: (99 lines)
     LIBRARY LITERACY AND HIGHER ED LIBRARY FELLOWSHIPS THREATENED
          BY CONGRESSIONAL RESCISSIONS
     ACTION ALERT:  APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEES SHOULD BE CONTACTED ABOUT 
          THREATENED RESCISSIONS

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       LIBRARY LITERACY AND HIGHER ED LIBRARY FELLOWSHIPS THREATENED
                       BY CONGRESSIONAL RESCISSIONS

The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services
and Education is in the process of preparing a list of items to include on
a rescission bill.  As yet, no bill has been introduced, but it is expected
this week.  

Library literacy (LSCA VI), and Higher Education Act Library fellowships
and institutes (HEA II-B) are especially vulnerable because they were not
included in the President's budget last year, have been targeted by the
same subcommittee before, and do not spend out grant dollars until later in
the year.

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                               ACTION ALERT
APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEES SHOULD BE CONTACTED ABOUT THREATENED RESCISSIONS

ACTION NEEDED: Library literacy supporters and library school students
should take the opportunity to communicate with committee members and
individual Representatives and Senators.  Although these two programs are
not large by federal spending standards, they have profound effects both in
the community and in the library profession.  Cutting either program would
have a serious and extremely unfortunate impact on new readers and on the
library profession.

The members of the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations
Subcommittee on Labor-HHS-Education are:

*  MAJORITY:                                 * MINORITY:
John Edward Porter, IL, Chair                David R. Obey, WS
C.W. Bill Young, FL                          Louis Stokes, OH
Henry Bonilla, TX                            Steny H. Hoyer, MD
Ernest Jim Istook Jr., OK                    Nancy Pelosi, CA
Dan Miller, FL                               Nita M. Lowey, NY

The phone number at the U.S. House of Representatives is 202-224-3121.

Although the initial emphasis should be on contacting the House of
Representatives, the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee that deals with
these and other related appropriations issues is as follows:

SENATE LABOR-HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES-EDUCATION COMMITTEE:
* MAJORITY:                                  * MINORITY:
Arlen Specter, PA, Chair                     Tom Harkin, IO
Mark Hatfield, OR                            Robert C. Byrd, WV
Thad Cochran, MS                             Ernest F. Hollings, SC
Slade Gorton, WS                             Daniel K. Inouye, HI
Connie Mack, FL                              Dale Bumpers, AK
Christopher S. Bond, MO                      Harry Reid, NV
James M. Jeffords, VT                        Herb Kohl, WS
Judd Gregg, NH

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