ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 14, Number 111
November 15, 2005

In This Issue: Contact Congress—Support Funding For Libraries  

Please call your Members of Congress today to ask them to support 
the House request of $212,650,000 million for the Library Services 
and Technology Act (LSTA).  

The Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations 
conferees are meeting this week and possibly making a decision as 
early as tomorrow (November 16th) on the 2006 funding level for 
LSTA.   Reps. Simmons (R-CT) and Grijalva (D-AZ) have joined to 
circulate a letter to Chairman Regula (R-OH) and Ranking Member 
Obey (D-WI) to support the House number of $212,650,000 million 
for LSTA.  

Please call your Member of Congress, especially if he or she is on 
the list below, to ask that he or she support the House request.  
If your Member of Congress is not a conferee but is supportive of 
libraries please ask her or him to call the chairman of the 
committee to urge them to support the House request.  The window 
of opportunity for this issue is short and phone calls will be 
most effective at this point. 

House conferees: Regula , Istook, Wicker, Northup, Cunningham, 
Granger, Peterson (PA), Sherwood, Weldon (FL), Walsh, Lewis (CA), 
Obey, Hoyer, Lowey, DeLauro, Jackson (IL), Kennedy (RI), and 
Roybal-Allard.

If your Senator is a conferee please call and ask her or him to 
support the House mark.

Senate conferees: Specter; Cochran; Gregg; Craig; Hutchison; 
Stevens; DeWine; Shelby; Domenici; Harkin; Inouye; Reid; Kohl; 
Murray; Landrieu; Durbin; Byrd.

Thanks for your help with this issue!


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