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<p><span style="font-size:22px"><strong>ALA Advocacy Alert: If you have a Senator on the Appropriations Committee, they need to hear from you!</strong></span></p>
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<p><strong>Even though Congress is on recess, critical funding decisions are being considered now.</strong></p>
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<p>In recent days reports have noted that $5 billion may be diverted from the Senate spending bill that funds the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and other library programs to fund the President's priorities, such as the border wall. </p>
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<p>Earlier this summer, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the FY 2020 Labor-HHS-Education and Related Agencies appropriations measure. In early September, the Senate will formally consider its version of the bill, but Senate appropriators are making decisions about funding for library programs right now. </p>
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<p>Contact your senator on the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee now and urge them to include $206 million in funding for the Library Services and Technology Act and $29 million in funding for Innovative Approaches to Literacy, levels that were agreed to by the House.</p>
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