On Thursday, July 22nd, the Senate Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations Subcommittee is expected to mark up its Fiscal Year 2011 funding bill.
Please take immediate action to contact your senator and ask them to support NLM’s FY 2011 funding. The attached action alert provides background information, including MLA and AAHSL’s funding recommendations, and information about how to contact your House member.
To find your senator, please go to http://www.senate.gov/ and enter your zip code. Phone numbers for all congressional offices are also listed here. Calling works best, but if you prefer communicate via e-mail.
Connect with your representatives during Capitol Hill Day on May 25. The Governmental Relations Committee has prepared fact sheets/talking points and other resources on two key issues: funding National Library of Medicine programs and services in fiscal year 2011 and supporting the Federal Research Public Access Act. Members participating in the Hill visits are encouraged to review these materials before the orientation.
“The Federal Research Public Access Act” (FRPAA), introduced as H.R. 5037 would require federal agencies with annual extramural research portfolios over $100 million to develop public access policies relating to research conducted by employees of that agency or from funds administered by that agency. This builds upon and refines the work done by the NIH [through the NIH Public Access Policy] and requires that the Federal Government’s leading underwriters of research adopt meaningful public access policies.
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President Obama released his budget for Fiscal Year 2011 for the Department of Health and Human Services, including NIH and NLM. The budget provides a $1 billion increase for NIH and a $21 million increase for NLM. While the CDC’s total FY 2011 budget request shows a $100 million increase, the funding for CDC’s core programs actually received a $132 million cut. The vast majority of CDC’s programs were either cut or level funded.
Prepared from statements by Health and Information Counsel to MLA and American Public Health Association.
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