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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 99
November 17, 1995

In this issue: (115 lines)
	ACTION NEEDED ON LSTA - UPDATE

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ACTION NEEDED ON LSTA - UPDATE

Listed below is the complete set of House-Senate conferees on H.R. 1617, the large job training and adult education consolidation bill in which House and Senate passed versions of the Library Services and Technology Act are embedded.  

The action needed remains the same.  For further information on the House-Senate conference compromise recommended to conferees by the American Library Association, the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies, and the Urban Libraries Council, see the ALAWON of November 13, #94.

ACTION NEEDED:  Your help is needed at this final key stage in the renewal of the major federal role in support of libraries.  Your support of library community recommendations for the final House-Senate conference version of LSTA in H.R. 1617 is crucial.  Please respond and spread the word to other library advocates.  A quick and widespread response to this action call will make a major difference.  

Please contact the ALA Washington Office with any feedback you may receive from your contacts; ask for Mary Costabile (202-628-
8410, #216, or at mrc@alawash.org).  Thank you for your help on this important issue.  The future of federal assistance for improved library service is at stake!

MESSAGE TO CONGRESS:  All library advocates should contact their Senators and Representatives to urge that the House-Senate conference committee on H.R. 1617 incorporate the library community recommendations in their final joint version of H.R. 1617.  It is especially important that library constituents of House-Senate conferees contact these key legislators immediately.

SENATE CONFEREES:  Senate conferees on H.R. 1617 include all members of the Labor and Human Resources Committee and its Subcommittee on Education, Arts and Humanities:

Nancy Kassebaum (R-KS), chair, full committee
Jim Jeffords (R-VT), chair, subcommittee
Dan Coats (R-IN)
Judd Gregg (R-NH)
Bill Frist (R-TN)
Mike DeWine (R-OH)
John Ashcroft (R-MO)
Spencer Abraham (R-MI)
Slade Gorton (R-WA)

Edward Kennedy (D-MA), ranking minority member, full committee
Claiborne Pell (D-RI), ranking minority member, subcommittee
Christopher Dodd (D-CT)
Paul Simon (D-IL)
Tom Harkin (D-IA)
Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
Paul Wellstone (D-MN)

HOUSE CONFEREES:  House conferees are the following members of the Economic and Educational Opportunities Committee.

William Goodling (R-PA), chair
Steve Gunderson (R-WI)
Randy Cunningham (R-CA)
Howard McKeon (R-CA)
Frank Riggs (R-CA)
Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Mark Souder (R-IN)

Bill Clay (D-MO), ranking minority member
Pat Williams (D-MT)
Dale Kildee (D-MI)
Thomas Sawyer (D-OH)
Gene Green (D-TX)
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