ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 9, Number 58
June 27, 2000

In this issue:
	Filtering Debate Postponed in Senate

Urgent Action Still Needed:
Library supporters should call their Senators and urge them to oppose McCain's 
filtering amendment (No. 3610) to the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill 
(H.R. 4577).  The Capitol Switchboard phone number is 202-224-3121.

Update:
Debate on the Labor-HHS-Education bill (H.R. 4577) was postponed late yesterday 
before Senator John McCain (R-AZ) was able to offer his amendment for debate and 
a vote.  Several attempts were made in the afternoon to resume consideration of 
H.R. 4577 in earnest, but there was an apparent lack of critical participants 
and instead the Senate spent much of the afternoon hearing floor statements as 
if in Morning Business.

This short delay offers a critical, but brief opportunity for library supporters 
to make additional calls to their Senate offices seeking not only a vote against 
McCain's filtering amendment, but also seeking Senators who are willing to go to 
the floor and speak against the amendment.

The Senate is expected to resume consideration of H.R. 4577 at 9:30 this 
morning.  McCain's amendment is expected to be considered at 9:45.  It is 
unclear at what time the Senate will schedule a vote on this issue.

For more details about the McCain amendment please see ALAWON v.9, n. 56, dated 
June 23, 2000.




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