ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 9, Number 77
September 28, 2000

In this issue:
	
Federal Filtering Mandates On the Move in Labor-HHS-Education 
Appropriations Bill Negotiations


ACTION NEEDED: Library supporters, your help is urgently needed!  
Please call or fax YOUR Senators and Representatives and ask them 
to contact the White House and Senate and House leadership on 
behalf of libraries.  Many voices are needed to help decision-
makers eliminate the federal filtering mandates currently in the 
Labor, Health, Human Services and Education appropriations bill 
(H.R. 4577). The Capitol Switchboard number is: 202-224-3121

This could be the eleventh hour for a filtering mandate decision.  
The Washington Office has received word the House and Senate 
representatives will be negotiating with the White House tomorrow, 
SEPTEMBER 29, to reach a decision on the filtering riders 
currently attached to the spending bill.

Leaders most likely to be present for negotiations include the 
following:

Jack Lew, director, White House Office of Management and Budget
          phone 202-395-4840
Sen. Ted Stevens
Sen. Robert Byrd
Sen. Arlen Spector
Sen. Tom Harkin
Sen. Jim Jeffords
Sen. Edward Kennedy
Rep. Bill Young
Rep. David Obey
Rep. John Porter
Rep. William Goodling
Rep. William Clay
Rep. Mike Castle
Rep. Dale Kildee

For additional background information on what is included in the 
draft bill or for reasons that federal filtering mandates are not 
right for libraries and schools, please see ALAWON, 8,1,2000 
(www.ala.org/washoff/alawon/alwn9066.html).



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