[PADG:346] NHPRC and NARA Funding for 2006

[Tom Teper <tteper@xxxxxxxx>]

> On Monday, the President of the US released his FY2006 budget
> recommendations which slash or eliminate more than 150 federal programs.
> In that budget, the National Historical Publications and Records
> Commission (NHPRC) has been targeted to receive NO funding. This
> includes no funds for the grants program and no funds for staffing to
> support the NHPRC programs. In addition, the overall budget for the
> National Archives and Records Administration has significant decreases
> in other areas of importance. The relevant section for NHPRC
> specifically and sparsely states: "National Historical Publications and
> Records Commission Grants.-This program provides funding for grants that
> the Commission makes, nationwide, to preserve and publish records that
> document American history. The Budget proposes no new grants funding for
> the National Historical Publications and Records Commission in 2006."

Regardless of your political leanings, this is a pretty significant issue 
given the significant assistance the NHPRC has given to libraries and 
archives throughout the nation. For those of you that might be interested, 
contact information for your Federal legislators may be located at the 
sites below.

Senate - an alphabetical list of Senators with a search function to limit 
them by the state they represent.
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

House of Representatives website - the zip code search will point you 
toward contact information for your district's representative
http://www.house.gov/

Write Your Representative - an online tool for contacting your 
Congressional Representative:
http://www.house.gov/writerep/



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