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ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 11, Number 43
May 21, 2002
In This Issue: HORN BILL MARK-UP "ON HOLD" DUE TO WHITE HOUSE PRESSURE
Last week, the House Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Financial Management and Intergovernmental Relations scheduled a mark-up of Representative Stephen Horn's (R-CA) legislation, "The Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2002" (H.R. 4187) for this Wednesday. The bill is designed to overturn President Bush's Executive Order 13233 that establishes new procedures for implementation of the Presidential Records Act (PRA). Now, however, we learn due to White House pressure, the mark-up is postponed until after the Memorial Day recess. This gives the White House time to derail the measure.
Several weeks ago, passage of the bill out of the House Committee by a wide partisan margin was virtually assured as a growing number of Democrats and Republicans were adding their names to the list of co-sponsors. Now, however, the Bush Administration is beginning to swing into action. Already they have persuaded at least one Republican member to withdraw his co-sponsorship of the bill. The apparent strategy is to divide the Republican co-sponsors so that when the measure passes out of Committee next week, it will appear not to have strong bi-partisan support.
The White House is concentrating its lobbying efforts on Republican members of the House, particularly targeting Republican members of the Committee on Government Reform. The library and public access communities need to respond and swing into action!
ACTION ALERT: If your member of Congress is a Republican, ESPECIALLY IF YOU SEE THEIR NAME IS LISTED BELOW, please take IMMEDIATE ACTION and call them TODAY. Ask them if they are a cosponsor of "The Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2002" (H.R. 4187) introduced by Representative Horn on April 11, which is supported by House Government Reform Committee Chair Dan Burton, and by a bi-partisan list of over 30 co-sponsors. If they are a co-sponsor of the measure, thank them for their continuing support. If they are not a co-sponsor, urge them to become one.
To call the Member of the House of Representatives, dial the Capitol switchboard telephone number at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected with your Congressional representative's office.
It is especially important that ALL of the following Republican members of the Committee on Government Reform be contacted by constituents:
Constance A. Morella of Maryland;
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, John Mica, Joe Scarborough,Dan Miller, Dave Weldon, and Adam Putnam of Florida;
John McHugh and Benjamin A. Gilman of New York;
Thomas M. Davis III, Jo-Ann Davis, and Edward L. Schrock of Virginia;
Mark Souder of Indiana;
C.L. "Butch" Otterof Idaho;
Bob Barr of Georgia;
Ron Lewis of Kentucky;
Todd Platts of Pennsylvania;
Steven C. LaTourette of Ohio;
Doug Ose of California;
Christopher Shays of Connecticut;
Chris Cannon of Utah.
If any of the above Members represent you in Congress, PLEASE CALL. Thank you in advance for your help.
We thank Bruce Craig <rbcraig@nccph.org> of the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History (NCCPH) for this alert.
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