<div dir="ltr"><div>Please contact Jeff Merkley (Oregon) and ask that he not support a cut of funding to libraries.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Suzanne</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Emily Sheketoff</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:esheketoff@alawash.org">esheketoff@alawash.org</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, May 18, 2016 at 1:56 PM<br>Subject: [alacro-l] LSTA Appropriations<br>To: "<a href="mailto:alacro-l@lists.ala.org">alacro-l@lists.ala.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:alacro-l@lists.ala.org">alacro-l@lists.ala.org</a>><br><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">IMLS budget mark up by the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee is happening in early June and the staff is working on it now<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Washington state librarians have heard that they intend to use the President’s request….which would mean an overall LSTA cut of $515,000…….for FY2017.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The following Senators are on the subcommittee which will write this bill. Could those chapters from their states encourage your colleagues to call them, explain why the President’s request cuts funding to libraries
(although IMLS amount is level-funded, our money going to museums & research office), how this cut will negatively impact your state services, and why they should not cut library funding. Since the IMLS total remains the same, maybe some Senators don’t know
that libraries are being cut.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Subcommittee members are:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Roy Blunt – MO<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Jerry Moran – KS<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Richard Shelby – AL<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Thad Cochran – MS<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Lamar Alexander – TN<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Lindsey Graham – SC<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Mark Kirk – IL<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Bill Cassidy – LA<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Shelley Moore Capito – WV<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">James Lankford – OK<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Patty Murray – WA<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dick Durbin – IL<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Jack Reed – RI<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Barbara Mikulski – MD<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Jeanne Shaheen – NH<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Jeff Merkley – OR<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Brian Schatz – HI<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Tammy Baldwin - WI<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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