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ACTION ALERTS
Posted June 22, 2005:
Continuing the message to restore funding
for NHPRC
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The House of Representatives has restored funding for the National Historical
Publications and Records Commission in its budget bill--$5.5 million for
competitive
grants and $2 million for program administration. The House Subcommittee on
Treasury, Transportation, HUD, and the Judiciary added the funding back on
June 15,
and the House Appropriations Committee approved that addition on June 21.
This is a
very positive result at this stage, and the organizations and individuals who
raised their
voices to request restoration of funding can be very pleased.
Of course there’s more to be done, but now in the Senate, to preserve this
funding or to
raise it to the $8 million in grants and $2 million in administration that
the archives,
records management, history, and research community has identified as the
essential
level of funding.
To ensure that this funding survives through the next stages of the budget
process, the
following steps must be taken:
In the Senate:
Send letters to your senators. If your senator is on the Senate
Appropriations
Committee and the Senate Subcommittee on Treasury, Transportation, HUD, and
the
Judiciary, ask him or her to propose that the funding recommended by the
House be
increased to $8 million for competitive grants and $2 million for staff and
administration
in the National Archives budget. (For a list of committee and subcommittee
members,
see
www.savearchives.org)
If your senator is not on the Appropriations Committee or the Senate T-THUD
Subcommittee, ask him or her to contact Senator Kit Bond, chair of the T-THUD
Subcommittee(if your senator is a Republican), or Senator Patty Murray,
ranking
member of the T-THUD Subcommittee(if your senator is a Democrat), with a
request
that the funding recommended by the House be increased to $8 million for
competitive
grants and $2 million for staff and administration in the National Archives
budget.
Archival organizations should also contact Senator Bond as the chair of
T-THUD and
indicate their support for funding restoration. Be sure to cite your
membership numbers
in your support letter.
Make a visit to the home offices of your senators or representative. Or, if
you or your
constituents are going to be in Washington, DC, plan to visit your members’
DC offices.
If you can’t talk with the senator or representative, talk to his or her
staff members—and
specifically the staff member who handles appropriations issues. Again, urge
them to
contact their colleagues on both the Senate and House Appropriations
Committee and
the Subcommittees on Treasury, Transportation, HUD and the Judiciary to voice
their
support for the restoration of funding for NHPRC.
Questions? Suggestions? Contact:
info(a)coshrc.org or admin(a)savearchives.org
Members of the Joint Task Force on Advocacy
Council of State Historical Records Coordinators:
David Carmicheal, Sandra Clark, Kathleen Roe Society of American Archivists:
Peter Gottlieb, Joan Krizack, Rand Jimerson,
Richard Pearce-Moses, Nancy Beaumont National Association of Government
Archives and Records Administrators:
Tim Slavin
ARMA International:
Stacey Moye
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