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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#2E477C" vlink="#2E477C"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> NCH Newsletter [mailto:newsletter@historycoalition.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 02, 2011 11:49 AM<br><b>To:</b> Carleton, Janet<br><b>Subject:</b> National Coalition for History ALERT December 2, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a href="http://historycoalition.org" title="» National Coalition for History Home Page"><span style='color:#A42F42;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=655 height=163 id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://historycoalition.org/images/banner-news.jpg"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><div id=content><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid #A42F42 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;background:white'><h1 style='background:white'>Washington Update for December 2, 2011<o:p></o:p></h1></div><div><div><h3 style='background:white'><a href="http://historycoalition.org/2011/12/02/fy-12-federal-funding-decisions-at-final-stage-action-needed-now/" title="Permanent Link to FY ’12 Federal Funding Decisions At Final Stage–Action Needed Now!">FY ’12 Federal Funding Decisions At Final Stage–Action Needed Now!</a><o:p></o:p></h3><h4 style='background:white'>Friday, December 2nd, 2011<o:p></o:p></h4><p style='background:white'>The House and Senate are concluding year-end negotiations over Fiscal Year 2012 spending levels. It is important if you care about funding for agencies such as the National Endowment for the Humanities and National Historical Publications & Records Commission, and Department of Education programs such as Teaching American History grants and Title VI/Fulbright-Hays International Education, that you <strong>contact your Members of Congress as soon as possible</strong>. <a href="http://historycoalition.org/2011/12/02/fy-12-federal-funding-decisions-at-final-stage-action-needed-now/#more-4515"><span style='color:#A42F42'>Read more…</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id=footer><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#D1D1E3'>If you do not want to receive this newsletter, please use the following form to <a href="http://historycoalition.org/newsadmin/user/login.php">unsubscribe.</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>