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ACTION ALERT: More Calls Needed to Support NEH Dear Colleague, The Co-Chairs of the Congressional Humanities Caucus, Rep.
David Price (D-NC) and Rep. Phil English (R-PA), are circulating a Dear
Colleague letter in the House in support of $177 million in funding for the
National Endowment for the Humanities (a $32 million increase). This increase
is needed, not only to begin significant restoration of funding for NEH, but to
offset nearly $7 million in cuts to core programs proposed in the President's FY
2009 budget request. As of this writing (3/14/08), 59 members of the House of
Representatives have agreed to sign the letter. We need as many signatures as
possible, and still have a long way to go to reach our goal of over 100 names.
Please review the list at the end of this message, and call or email your
representative if he/she has not already agreed to sign the letter. Thank you for your support. Sincerely, Jessica Jones Irons Executive Director National Humanities ******************************************* ACTION NEEDED Call, email, or fax your Representative TODAY and ask
him/her to sign on to this letter. A draft message is posted for you to email
or fax your Member of Congress at the Humanities Advocacy Network's website: http://www.humanitiesadvocacy.org/action_ctr.html. Please feel free to customize the message, especially if
you have recently participated in Humanities Advocacy Day congressional visits. A large number of signatures on the Dear Colleague letter,
particularly if they represent both sides of the aisle, will send a very
important message to the leadership of the House Interior Appropriations
Subcommittee as they begin to work on the mark-up of the FY 2009 spending bill.
All Members of Congress can be reached by phone through the Capitol Switchboard
at 202.224.3121. Note: Appropriations Committee members do not typically
sign Dear Colleague letters addressed to their Subcommittee. SAMPLE MESSAGE TO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS I write to ask that you sign on to a Dear Colleague letter
currently circulating by Rep. David Price (D-NC) and Rep. Phil English (R-PA),
requesting $177 million for the National Endowment for the Humanities in FY
2009, an increase of approximately $30 million over the FY 2008 enacted level
and the President's request. The proposed increase would provide additional resources for
important on-going NEH programs including state humanities councils, research,
education, preservation, and public programming. It would also allow NEH to
extend the reach of two of its major initiatives: the "We the People"
program and the Digital Humanities Initiative. The Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee
said that signing this letter does not require certification and will not count
against a Members' earmark requests. For more information or to sign on to the letter, please
contact Kate Roetzer with Rep. David Price at 5-1784 or Peter Sperry with Rep.
Phil English at 5-5406. The deadline to sign the letter is Monday, March 17.
You can view text of the letter at: http://www.nhalliance.org/caucus/house_neh_dcl.pdf. ******************************************* MEMBERS WHO HAVE AGREED TO SIGN NEH DC LETTER (AS OF
3/14/08) Price, David (co-sponsor) English, Philip (co-sponsor) Abercrombie, Neil Allen, Tom Altmire, Jason Baca, Joe Baldwin, Tammy Berkley, Shelley Berman, Howard Boswell, Leonard Boyda, Nancy Capps, Lois Capuano, Mike Cleaver, Emanuel Conyers, John Cubin, Barbara DeLauro, Rosa Dent, Charles Dingell, John Fortenberry, Jeff Frank, Barney Gerlach, Jim Gonzalez, Charlie Grijalva, Raul Herseth-Sandlin, Stephanie Hodes, Paul Inslee, Jay Johnson, Tim Kucinich, Dennis Langevin, Jim Levin, Sander LoBiondo, Frank Loebsack, Dave Lucas, Frank Maloney, Carolyn Matheson, Jim Matsui, Doris McDermott, Jim McGovern, James Michaud, Michael Miller, Brad Moran, Jerry Moran, Jim Nadler, Jerrold Ortiz, Solomon Reichert, David Reyes, Silvestre Sarbanes, John Scott, Bobby Scott, David Slaughter, Louise Smith, Chris Snyder, Vic Solis, Hilda Tauscher, Ellen Thompson, Mike Van Hollen, Chris Waxman, Henry Woolsey, Lynn Wu, David Yarmouth, John |