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FYI<br>
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Suzanne L. Sager<br>
ALA Oregon Chapter Councelor<br>
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<td>[alacro-l] URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Protect Library Funding in
the Economic Stimulus Package</td>
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<th align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="baseline">Date: </th>
<td>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:03:34 -0500</td>
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<th align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="baseline">From: </th>
<td>Don Wood <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dwood@ala.org"><dwood@ala.org></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:alacro-l@ala.org">alacro-l@ala.org</a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:alacro-l@ala.org"><alacro-l@ala.org></a></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The next 36 to 48 hours is critical to get
millions, maybe
billions, of dollars for libraries in the stimulus package. We need
every
single library supporter to start sending messages and calling
congressional
offices so that we can keep important library provisions in the
American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). As you all know, libraries are a
key source of free Internet access to look for jobs and so much
more. Our libraries provide essential services that stimulate our
local economies, and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of
20009
provides crucial funding for libraries to continue and build upon
them. This week<em>, the Senate and House versions of the economic
stimulus package will go to conference to reconcile these pieces of
legislation,
and your calls and e-mails will help protect this funding</em>. There
are
pros and cons of each version of the stimulus, and we need to protect
the
parts that benefit our communities.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the coming days, you will receive a lot of
e-mails from
us, and your advocacy will be the key to our success. Last week,
Senate Amendment 501 could have stripped broadband funding from their
version
of the bill but your calls and e-mails to your elected officials
defeated this
amendment and successfully protected this funding. Now, more than
ever,
your activism is needed. <b>Over 1,250 calls went to our elected
officials, and now we need even more.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please call your elected officials and tell them
to
communicate with the conferees in support of the following parts in
both the
House and the Senate versions:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="">Restore education construction funds
eliminated from the Senate version of the ARRA. The House version of
the ARRA would provide $14 billion for K-12 construction and $6 billion
for higher education construction and specifically mention libraries as
an allowable use of funds. The K-12 construction funds would create
300,000 jobs. <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="">Restore the money cut from the State
Stabilization Fund in the Senate bill to $79 billion to and restore the
Governors ability to use a portion of the funds at his or her
discretion.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="">Maintain $8 billion for ‘Broadband
Technology Opportunities Program’ for robust broadband to all of <ns0:country-region><ns0:place>America</ns0:place></ns0:country-region>
including “fiber to the libraries for the 21st century.”<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="">No less than $200 million that shall
be available for competitive grants for expanding public computer
center capacity, including community colleges and public libraries.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="">Open access of networks should be
upheld and not include provisions allowing intrusive network management
techniques. <o:p></o:p></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If your elected officials are one of the
following, it is
even more critical that you contact them, as they are conferees on this
legislation and control what stays in and what will be taken out.
Please
contact the following and use the same talking points:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Appropriations Chairman Obey (D-WI)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-NY)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Commerce Chairman Waxman (D-CA)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Appropriations Ranking Member Jerry Lewis (R-CA)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Appropriations Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-HI)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Finance Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-IA)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Appropriations Ranking Member Thad Cochran (R-MS)<br>
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Again, the only way our grassroots effort will be successful is with
your calls
and e-mails. Your efforts have resulted in a stay of implementation on
the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act and a defeat of the
amendment that
would have cut broadband funding from the Senate version of the
economic
stimulus act. This is our most important ask yet; without your calls,
libraries will be left out of this legislation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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