From MLA National: Please contact your Senators today and encourage them to vote YES on the Specter/Harkin health care amendment to the budget resolution. It is possible that this amendment will be voted on as soon as the evening of March 22. 2007. Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania) and Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) announced Wednesday, March 21, 2007, they are going to offer an amendment to the FY 2008 Senate Budget Resolution. This amendment would provide significant new money to the National Institutes of Health as described in the Specter-Harken Amendment #506. The amendment increases funding for Health-related programs (Function 550) by $2.2 billion above the amount provided in the underlying resolution.
This $2.2 billion (together with the increase of $1.6 billion included in the underlying resolution) would be used to:
- restore NIH funding the fiscal year 2005 inflation-adjusted level (+$3.5 billion)
- provide increases at the CDC and continue facilities construction and revitalization
- restore funding for Health Professions Training Programs to their fiscal year 2005 levels
Contact information for your Senators can be found at: www.senate.gov
MLA members should submit items for the Personals column of the May issue of MLA News to Linda Katz, active member of the Philadelphia Chapter and editor of the national newsletter. This includes position changes, honors and awards, and other news of this sort. An accompanying digital photograph is always welcome.
She is also accepting Letters to the Editor–comments on MLA News, its columns, or any aspect of medical librarianship.
The deadline for submissions is March 26. Contact Linda with any questions.
In the March 2007 issue of The Scientist, Glenn McGee writes, “The EPA relies on accumulated wisdom as it navigates new and varied problems. You’d think that the agency responsible for, say, all clinical information on the effects of pesticides would do anything to keep those systems of information fully operational and to modernize. But in fact, the greatest environmental disaster of this decade may be the amnesia that the White House and EPA seem hell-bent on causing.” …
“Current and former members of the EPA Library staff have had the courage to come forward with information that has brought to light actions that have endangered the scientific communities…”. Read President Burger’s entire statement:
ALA President Leslie Burger Salutes EPA Library Workers
Congratulations to Caren Cowhig and Karen Albert, winners of the MLA-PHIL Membership Drive Contest!
Everyone who renewed their membership by March 15 was entered in a drawing for two free conference registrations for MLA ‘07. Thanks to everyone who renewed their membership.
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