FW: Advocacy Alert/Please Circulate

[Sandra Bishop <bishop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Fellow Researchers,

Please take a minute to read the below advocacy alert concerning the
threat to discretionary funding under CAPTA (including RESEARCH funding).
The U.S. House of Representatives has ZEROED OUT the CAPTA discretionary
funding.

(forwarded with permission)

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> ADVOCACY ALERT:  House and Senate Contacts/CAPTA Funds
> 
> Please circulate this alert to your networks.
> 
> With Congress adjourned for the August recess, there is opportune time
> for contacts to be made with members of the House and Senate Labor, HHS
> and Education Appropriations Subcommittees to urge the restoration of
 $14 million in funding cut in the House bill from the Child Abuse
> Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) discretionary grants. 
> 
> The House version of the FY99 Labor, HHS and Education Appropriations
> Bill awaiting floor action in September ZEROES OUT the CAPTA
  discretionary money.  The Senate appropriations subcommittee, chaired by
  Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), may take up the bill the week of August 31.
  It is hoped that the Senate subcommittee will restore the $14 million in
  CAPTA funding to the appropriations bill.
> 
> The final decision on the CAPTA discretionary funding will be made in
> September by a House-Senate conference committee drawn from the
> members of the two subcommittees.  Contacts with those Senators and
> Representatives are essential to demonstrate a constituency for the
  CAPTA funding.
> 
> Please contact your Senators on the appropriations subcommittee to
> protest the House action eliminating the grant funding and urge that the
  money be restored in the Senate bill.  Contact your Representatives on 
  the House subcommittee and urge that the funding be restored to the
  CAPTA grants.  
> 
> Senate Subcommittee on Labor, HHS and Education Appropriations:
> 
> Republicans: Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA),  Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS),
> Sen. Slade Gorton (R-WA), Sen. Christopher Bond (R-MO), Sen. Judd Gregg
> (R-NH), Sen. Lauch Faircloth (R-NC), Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID), Sen. Kay
  Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)
> 
> Democrats:  Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-SC), Sen.
> Daniel Inouye (D-HI), Sen. Dale Bumpers (D-AR), Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV),
> Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI), Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)
> 
> House Subcommittee on Labor, HHS and Education Appropriations:
> 
> Republicans:  John Edward Porter (IL), C.W. Bill Young (FL), Henry
> Bonilla (TX), Ernest J. Istook, Jr. (OK), Dan Miller (FL), Jay Dickey
  (AR), Roger Wicker (MS), Anne Northup (KY)
>                          
> Democrats:  David R. Obey (WI), Louis Stokes (OH), Steny H. Hoyer
> (MD),  Nancy Pelosi (CA), Nita M. Lowey (NY), Rosa L. DeLauro (CT)
> 
> Address letters as follows:
> 
> The Honorable _______________ 
> U.S. Senate
> Washington, D.C. 20510
> 
> Dear Sen. ___________________
> 
> The Honorable _______________
> U.S. House of Representatives
> Washington, D.C. 20515
> 
> Dear Rep. ___________________
> 
> Calls to House and Senate offices may be placed through the Capitol
> switchboard:
> 202-224-3121