ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 8, Number 87
September 7, 1999

In this issue:

Labor-HHS-Education Funding Update; "National Contact Washington 
Day for Education Funding" on Friday, September 10

Congress will return from recess on September 8 to a myriad of 
appropriations issues.  The Senate Labor-HHS-Education 
Subcommittee is scheduled to mark-up their FY2000 funding bill on  
September 8, and the House Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee is 
scheduled to mark-up their funding bill on September 9.  

However, both mark-ups may slip until the week of September 13 
since no progress has been made on the underlying spending cap 
issue.  As reported in the August 20 ALAWON (v8, n83), budgetary 
caps could result in across-the-board funding cuts of more than 9 
percent in the Senate bill and 18 percent in the House bill.  

ACTION NEEDED: The Committee for Education Funding, a coalition of 
which ALA is a member that focuses on funding for federal 
education programs, will hold "National Contact Washington Day for 
Education Funding" this Friday, September 10.  

This year's campaign, "Be Smart, Invest in Education," is intended 
to call legislators' attention to the importance of increased 
funding for education and related programs for FY2000.  The 
message to Congress is: "Don't cut or freeze education. Make 
increased federal investment in education the top budget 
priority."  For more information see http://www.cef.org/ 

You can reach your Representative and Senators through the U.S. 
Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121; the White House comment line 
is 202-456-1111.  If you need information regarding Congressional 
appropriations for library programs, please contact Mary Costabile 
at 1-800-941-8478 or mrc@alawash.org 

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