Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h0OMegP17968; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:40:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:40:42 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <009501c2c3f9$1b3e0e80$2c881a0a@tpeyton> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Tony Peyton" <tpeyton@famlit.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1376] Even Start Funding Alert X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 2073 Lines: 46 Friday, January 24, 2003 IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED! Senate Proposes Even Start Funding Cut Contact your Representatives and Senators Now! The Senate has approved a $56 million funding cut for the Even Start Family Literacy Program. The Senate's proposal would fund Even Start at $194 million. The Senate arrived at this amount by taking the President's proposed $200 million and applying a 2.9% cut. The House of Representatives earlier approved level funding for Even Start, which is currently funded at $250 million. The differences will be resolved in Conference Committee soon. Senate Conferees have been named and are listed at the end of this message. The House Conferees will be named on Monday. What You Should Do: Contact your Members of Congress and ask them to urge the Conferees (if they are not a conferee) to "ACCEPT THE HOUSE POSITION ON EVEN START FUNDING," which in the aggregate is within the President's total spending limit. It is important that if your Member is not on the Conference Committee that you urge them to contact Chairmen Young or Regula or Rep. Obey in the House and Chairmen Stevens or Specter or Sen. Harkin in the Senate. It is imperative Congress hears from the family literacy field now to avert this funding cut. Again, please ask each Member to urge the Conferees to maintain Even Start funding at $250 million. Due to the urgency of this situation, the best forms of communication are telephone calls and faxes. To find your Member of Congress and their contact information, go to http://www.house.gov/writerep/ for Representatives and http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm for Senators. You can also call the U.S. Capitol switchboard. Call (202) 224-3121 for Senators and (202) 225-3121 for Representatives. Senate Conferees: Senators Stevens, Cochran, Specter, Domenici, Bond, McConnell, Burns, Shelby, Gregg, Bennett, Campbell, Craig, Hutchison, DeWine, Brownback, Byrd, Inouye, Hollings, Leahy, Harkin, Mikulski, Reid, Kohl, Murray, Dorgan, Feinstein, Durbin, Johnson, Landrieu.
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