[Scla-list] FW: [alacro-l] Update on LSTA Funding for FY2010

[Gilson, Thomas V]

I thought that I would pass this on to those of you who are interested
in future LSTA funding.  You will probably be hearing more as we get
closer to a vote. 

Tom

 

From: Michael Dowling [mailto:mdowling at ala.org] 
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 1:19 PM
To: ALACRO-L
Subject: [alacro-l] Update on LSTA Funding for FY2010

 

>From ALA Washington Office's District Dispatch

We have been watching appropriations activity around the Library
Services and Technology Act (LSTA) since the summer because the
House-passed appropriations bill for Labor-HHS-Education has a $1
million increase in the state program over FY2009 for FY2010, and the
Senate does not.  But the Senate bill has only passed out of the
Committee, no bill has come to the floor.

Now, according to Congressional Quarterly, Senate Appropriations
Chairman Daniel Inouye says that the Senate almost certainly won't have
enough time before the end of the year to pass each spending bill, let
alone pass the conference bill for each which would reflect the
agreement between the House and the Senate.  He believes they will pull
the remaining bills together in an omnibus bill which could pass around
Thanksgiving or the beginning of December.

The government's new fiscal year should have begun October 1.

Emily Sheketoff
Executive Director, ALA Washington Office

 

 

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