ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 9, Number 11 February 11, 2000 In this issue: ESEA Moving in Senate; Action Needed During the last few weeks, Senate staff and organizations interested in Elementary and Secondary Act (ESEA) reauthorization have met to consider several sections of a large committee draft bill. It may be that the Senate Health, Education Labor and Pensions Committee will mark up the draft legislation as early as the week of February 21. At this point it is unclear whether the final draft will include S. 1262, the Elementary and Secondary School Library Media Resources, Training and Advanced Technology Assistance Act. ACTION NEEDED: School library supporters are urged to call, write, and visit local offices of the members of the HELP Committee (below) and ask for their support in including S. 1262 in the final draft bill. (The Senate Switchboard phone number is: (202) 224-3121.) If your Senator is not on the Committee but is a sponsor of the bill, like Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), please contact his or her office and ask for help. (Use the ALA Legislative Action Center (congress.ala.org), but be sure to send a paper copy of your letter as well.) Individual Senators can speak directly to committee members asking that S. 1262 be included. Members of state school library media associations should alert their membership as well as related organizations who can support this bill (like Parent Teachers Associations). In the last few weeks there have been a number of newspaper articles investigating the sad state of school library materials. Now is the time to act. Thanks for your help. If you have any questions, or if you want to share feedback from your congressional office, please contact Mary Costabile, associate director for ALA's Office of Government Relations, at 800-941-8478 or mcostabile@alawash.org. -- Mary Costabile Members of the Senate HELP Committee and/or sponsors of S. 1262 are as follows: St-Pty Senator Phone Fax (202 Area Code) AL R Jeff Sessions 224-4124 224-3149 AR R Tim Hutchinson 224-2353 228-3973 CT D Christopher J. Dodd* 224-2823 224-1083 IA D Tom Harkin 224-3254 224-9369 KS R Sam Brownback 224-6521 228-1265 MA D Edward M. Kennedy, Rnk* 224-4543 224-2417 MA D John Kerry 224-2742 224-8525 ME R Susan M. Collins 224-2523 224-2693 MD D Barbara A. Mikulski 224-4654 224-8858 MD D Paul Sarbanes 224-4524 224-1651 MN D Paul Wellstone* 224-5641 224-8438 MS R Thad Cochran 224-5054 224-9450 MT D Max Baucus 224-2651 NE R Chuck Hagel 224-4224 224-5213 NH R Judd Gregg 224-3324 224-4952 NM D Jeff Bingaman* 224-5521 224-2852 NV D Harry Reid 224-3542 224-7327 OH R Mike DeWine 224-2315 224-6519 RI D Jack F. Reed* 224-4642 224-4680 SD D Tom Daschle 224-2321 224-2047 TN R Bill Frist 224-3344 228-1264 VT R James Jeffords, Chair 224-5141 228-0338 WA D Patty Murray * 224-2621 224-0238 WY R Michael B. Enzi 224-3424 228-0359 * Sponsors of S. 1262, the Elementary and Secondary School Library Media Resources, Training and Advanced Technology Act ****** ALAWON (ISSN 1069-7799) is a free, irregular publication of the American Library Association Washington Office. All materials subject to copyright by the American Library Association may be reprinted or redistributed for noncommercial purposes with appropriate credits. To subscribe to ALAWON, send the message: subscribe ala-wo [your_firstname] [your_lastname] to listproc@ala.org or go to http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon. To unsubscribe to ALAWON, send the message: unsubscribe ala-wo to listproc@ala.org. ALAWON archives at http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon. ALA Washington Office, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Suite 403, Washington, D.C. 20004-1701; phone: 202.628.8410 or 800.941.8478 toll-free; fax: 202.628.8419; e-mail: alawash@alawash.org; Web site: http://www.ala.org/washoff. Executive Director: Emily Sheketoff; Editor: Deirdre Herman. Office of Government Relations: Lynne Bradley, Director; Mary Costabile, Peter Kaplan, Miriam Nisbet and Claudette Tennant. Office for Information Technology Policy: Rick Weingarten, Director; Jennifer Hendrix, Carrie Russell and Saundra Shirley.