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URGENT! LSTA in danger! Call NOW to protect library funding!
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| URGENT!!! DEADLINE TOMORROW TO PROTECT LSTA FUNDING!!! |
Take Action!
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| Call your Senators now!!! |
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Please contact your Senators and ask them to sign the “Dear Colleague” letter being circulated by Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) in support of funding for the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) and the Improving Literacy Through School Libraries Program.
The deadline has been extended to 10am on May 14, 2009!!!!!!!
This is a tough budget year. After passing the stimulus package, only a select few programs will receive an increase in FY 2010. LSTA and the Improving Literacy Through School Libraries Program are in serious danger of receiving level funding, or possibly even a cuts, if we don’t have 60 signatures on the letter. Please contact your Senator NOW!
The letter is addressed to the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriation Subcommittee and requests that the Senate include $300 million for the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) and $100 million for the Improving Literary Through School Libraries program for FY 2010. It has come to our attention that Senate offices have been told this request is considered an earmark. We have been assured by Appropriations Committee staff this is not the case.
Please CALL your Senators and let them know that this letter is an absolute priority. Click on the “take action” link in the upper left hand corner and enter your zip code. It will provide you with both talking points and the contact information for your elected official. When you convince your Senators to sign onto the Dear Colleague, you must ask him or her to call Andrew Odgren with Senator Reed at 202-224-4642 or Mathew Hussey with Senator Snowe at 202-224-5344.
The following Senators have signed onto this letter. If your Senator is not on this list, but has committed to signing the Dear Colleague, please call them IMMEDIATELY: Reed
Snowe
Kohl
Lautenberg
Cardin
Gillibrand
Lieberman
Wyden
Boxer
Lincoln
Kennedy
Menendez
Levin
Whitehouse
Bingaman
Sanders
Schumer
Rockefeller
Conrad
Johnson
Burris
Tester
Casey
Dodd
Baucus
Burr
Leahy
Bunning
Merkley
Brown
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