NLA Alert: Senate Subcommittee Level-Funds Appropriations

[Dannebohm, Jamee]

It would be helpful to have phone numbers.  I do not have immediate
access to these numbers.  

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> From: 	Ralei at aol.com[SMTP:Ralei at aol.com]
> Reply To: 	nla at world.std.com
> Sent: 	Tuesday, September 01, 1998 7:34 PM
> To: 	NLA at world.std.com
> Subject: 	NLA Alert: Senate Subcommittee Level-Funds
> Appropriations
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, September 1, the Senate Education Appropriations
> Subcommittee
> voted to keep FY99 adult education funding at the same level as this
> year,
> despite increases that have been approved by the House Appropriations
> Committee.
> 
> The full Senate Appropriations Committee will meet on Thursday,
> September 3 to
> consider these and other education appropriations. Because of a
> technical
> "scoring change" the full committee will be allocating an additional
> $700
> million for education programs over and above the amount approved by
> the
> Senate subcommittee. It is important that we do everything possible to
> convince the committee to use some of these additional funds for adult
> education. 
> 
> If adult education is to receive any funding increase in FY99, it is
> imperative that the  full Senate Appropriations Committee add funding
> to the
> amounts approved by the subcommittee. Calls are needed
> NOW---Wednesday,
> September 2---to members of the Appropriations Committee, asking that
> Senators
> support increases in four adult education programs: state grants,
> national
> programs, National Institute for Literacy, and Even Start.  
> 
> See below for the funding levels approved by the Senate subcommittee,
> compared
> to the levels voted by the House Appropriations Committee:
> 
>                              Senate Approps Subcommittee       House
> Approps
> Committee
> 
> Adult Ed State Grants:            $345 million                 $365 
> 
> America Reads                      0				0
> 
> Even Start                         124
> 135
> 
> Adult Ed National Programs         5				7
> 
> National Institute for Literacy    5.5
> 6
> 
> 
> In addition to the above figures, the Senate subcommittee approved a
> $73
> million appropriation for VISTA (an increase of $8 million), without
> any
> specific allocation to support VISTA's literacy activities. 
> 
> The National Coalition for Literacy is advocating a $500 million
> appropriation
> for the state grants program, $6 million for NIFL, $150 million for
> Even
> Start, and $12 million to support volunteer and community-based
> literacy
> networks through the National Programs account. Achieving these
> levels---even
> over several years---will require FY99 funding levels AT LEAST as high
> as the
> House Appropriations Committee has approved.
> 
> Members of the Senate Appropriations Committee are listed below. They
> may be
> reached by calling the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121. Please
> call on
> Wednesday if at all possible.
> 
> Republicans:
> 
> Ted Stevens  (AK)  [Chair]
> Thad Cochran  (MS)
> Arlen Specter (PA)  [Chair of Education Appropriations Subcommittee]
> Pete Dominici (NM)
> Kit Bond (MO)
> Slade Gorton (WA)
> Mitch McConnell (KY)
> Conrad Burns (MT)
> Richard Shelby (AL)
> Judd Gregg (NH)
> Robert Bennett (UT)
> Ben Nighthorse Campbell (CO)
> Larry Craig (ID)
> Lauch Faircloth (NC)
> Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX)
> 
> Democrats:
> 
> Robert Byrd (WVA) [Ranking Minority Member]
> Daniel Inouye (HI)
> Ernest Hollings (SC)
> Patrick Leahy (VT)
> Dale Bumpers (AR)
> Frank Lautenberg (NJ)
> Tom Harkin (IA)  [Ranking Member of Education Appropriations
> Subcommittee]
> Barbara Mikulski (MD)
> Harry Reid (NV)
> Herbert Kohl (WI)
> Patty Murray (WA)
> Byron Dorgan (ND)
> Barbara Boxer (CA)   
> 
> Even if your Senators are not on the Appropriations Committee, it is
> still
> important to call them. Ask them to communicate their support for
> adult
> education increases to members of the Appropriations Committee. The
> following
> Senators are on record as supporting the funding levels advocated by
> the
> Coalition for Literacy:
> 
> Murray (D-WA)
> Collins (R-ME)
> Snowe (R-ME)
> Durbin (D-IL)
> Reed (D-RI)
> Levin (D-MI)
> Kennedy (D-MA)
> Dodd (D-CT)
> D'Amato (R-NY)
> 
> Ask these Senators to take the lead in getting the Appropriations
> Committee to
> increase adult ed funding levels.
> 
> Also, Senators Cochran (MS), Santorum (PA), and DeWine (OH) have
> indicated in
> the past that they would support adult education increases.
> 
> Bill Raleigh
> Laubach Literacy
> (315)-422-9121 x354
> 
> email: ralei at aol.com
> 
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