[SOA] Action Alert: Stop the Fiscal Disaster for Historical Records in the United States!

[Sasha Griffin]

Society of Ohio Archivists, please consider contacting your Senator Sherrod
Brown, who is on the Senate Appropriates Committee.  His contact
information is highlighted below.  For a list of NHPRC funded projects that
have taken place in Ohio, please visit:
http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/projects/states-territories/oh.html

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 *Action Alert: **Stop the Fiscal Disaster for Historical Records in the
United States!*
**
*Tell the Senate Appropriations Committee to Fund NHPRC at $5 million*

*If your Senator is a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee: * Please
call or fax the Senator’s office – *before close of business on Friday,
June 8, 2012* – to ask for support of the National Historical Publications
and Records Commission (NHPRC), the “grant-making” arm of the National
Archives and Records Administration. The Senate Appropriations Committee
will be acting on the bill to fund NHPRC on Tuesday, June 12; all comments
must be received by Friday, June 8. (See the list of Senate Appropriations
Committee members below.)

*The Issue:* The President’s FY13 appropriations budget request proposes
only $3 million for NHPRC, a $2 million reduction from the current level of
$5 million. This amount is not sufficient to support the ongoing programs
and mission of the NHPRC at even a minimal level. It is up to Congress to
preserve this program, which has already been cut substantially in previous
fiscal years. *For FY 2013 we urge the Senate to provide at least $5
million (level funding) for the NHPRC grants program.*

*Take Action!* Call or fax your member on the Senate Appropriations
Committee to express your support for restoration of $5 million for NHPRC
funding as part of the National Archives budget. In your call or fax, speak
to the specific benefits of NHPRC for your state/organization/users. The
more the Senator understands the benefits to his or her constituents, the
more convincing your message will be. Your message need not be extensive—a
brief phone call or a one-page fax that speaks directly to the positive
benefits that NHPRC brings to your state or organization can have a
significant impact!   Please encourage archives, libraries, and other
historical organizations to call or fax on behalf of their organization and
users, too.

More detailed contact information for your Senator can be found on the
Senate website at: www.senate.gov.

Members of the Senate Appropriations Committee are:

*Democratic members*
Daniel Inouye, Hawaii                         202-224-3934 | fax
202-224-6747
Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont                   202-224-4242 | fax 202-224-3479
Tom Harkin, Iowa                               202-224-3254 | fax
202-224-9369
Barbara Milkulski, Maryland              202-224-4654 | fax 202-224-8858
Herb Kohl, Wisconsin                          202-224-5653 | fax
202-224-9787
Patty Murray, Washington                 202-224-2621 | fax 202-224-0238
Dianne Feinstein, California               202-224-3841 | fax 202-228-3954
Richard J. Durbin, Illinois                    202-224-2152 | fax
202-228-0400
Tim Johnson, South Dakota                 202-224-5842 | fax 202-228-5765
Mary Landrieu, Louisiana                   202-224-5824 | fax 202-224-9735
Jack Reed, Rhode Island                     202-224-4642 | fax 202-224-4680
Frank Lautenberg, New Jersey           202-224-3224 | fax 202-228-4054
Ben Nelson, Nebraska                         202-224-6551 | fax 202-228-0012
Mark Pryor, Arkansas                         202-224-2353 | fax 202-228-0908
Jon Tester, Montana                           202-224-2644 | fax
202-224-8594
*Sherrod Brown, Ohio                          202-224-2315 | fax
202-228-6321*
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*Republican members:*
Thad Cochran, Mississippi                  202-224-5054 | fax 202-224-9450
Mitch McConnell, Kentucky                202-224-2541 | fax 202-224-2499
Richard Shelby, Alabama                    202-224-5744 | fax 202-224-3416
Kay Bailey Hutchison, Texas               202-224-5922 | fax 202-224-0776
Lamar Alexander, Tennessee             202-224-4944 | fax 202-228-3398
Susan Collins, Maine                           202-224-2523 | fax
202-224-2693
Lisa Murkowski, Alaska                       202-224-6665 |  fax
202-224-5301
Lindsey Graham, South Carolina        202-224-5972 | fax 202-228-4611
Mark Kirk, Illinois                                202-224-2854 | fax
202-228-4611
Dan Coats, Indiana                              202-224-5623 | fax
202-228-1820
Roy Blunt, Missouri                             202-224-5721 | fax
202-224-8149
Jerry Moran, Kansas                           202-224-6521 | fax
202-228-6966
John Hoeven, North Dakota                202-224-2551 | fax 202-224-7999
Ron Johnson, Wisconsin                      202-224-5323 | fax 202-228-6965
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