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Washington Update for July 17, 2013<u></u><u></u></h1></div><div><div><h3 style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><font size="4"><a href="http://historycoalition.org/2013/07/17/contact-your-us-senator-today-urge-them-to-fund-the-nhprc/" title="Permanent Link to Contact your US Senator Today: Urge Them to Fund the NHPRC!" target="_blank">Contact your US Senator Today: Urge Them to Fund the NHPRC!</a></font></h3>

<h4 style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">Wednesday, July 17th, 2013<u></u><u></u></h4><p style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">On July 23, the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government (FS&GG) will mark up a fiscal year (FY) 2014 spending bill that provides funding for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). It is vitally important that you contact the members of the Senate Appropriations Committee TODAY and ask them to provide the NHPRC with $4.75 million (level funding) for FY ’14. <a href="http://historycoalition.org/2013/07/17/contact-your-us-senator-today-urge-them-to-fund-the-nhprc/#more-5415" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(164,47,66)">Read more…</span></a></p>

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                                <h4 style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">Tuesday, July 9th, 2013<br></h4><p>The House Appropriations Committee has released a <a href="http://appropriations.house.gov/uploadedfiles/bills-113hr-sc-ap-fy2014-fservices-subcommitteedraft.pdf">draft FY 14 Financial Services & General Government funding bill</a>. Unfortunately the bill includes no funding for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).<span id="more-5411"></span></p>


<p>The FS&GG subcommittee is marking up the bill tomorrow and the full committee sometime soon thereafter. </p>
<p>The National Archives would receive $381.1 million. That is $4.7 million less than what the Obama administration requested.</p><p style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><a href="http://historycoalition.org/2013/07/17/contact-your-us-senator-today-urge-them-to-fund-the-nhprc/#more-5415" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(164,47,66)"></span></a></p>

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