Re: Attra funding loss (fwd)

Lawrence F. London, Jr. (csare@vms2.macc.wisc.edu)
Sat, 23 Sep 1995 10:38:59 -0400

Actually, the situation for ATTRA has gone beyond this. Last week
grassroots pressure succeeded in obtaining level funding in the Senate bill
(floor action) for both ATTRA and RTCDG. The challenge now is the
conference commmittee to prevent them splitting the difference for ATTRA
with the House appropriation of 0 (which could again mean a cut). It would
be especially helpful to call House committee members Skeen (NM), Myers
(IN), Walsh (NY), Dickey (AR), Kingston (GA), Riggs (CA), Nethercutt (WA),
and democrats Durbin (IL), Kaptur (OH), Thornton (AR) and Lowey (NY).
Appropriations cmte chair is Livingston (LA) and ranking minority is Obey
(WI). In the Senate key members are McConnell (KY), Dole (KS), Santorum
(PA), Craig (ID) and democrats Harking (IA), Heflin (AL) and Daschle (SD).
Committee chair is Lugar (IN) and ranking member is Leahy (VT).

>From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <london@calypso-2.oit.unc.edu>
>Subject: Attra funding loss (fwd)
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>Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 19:10:35 -0400
>From: Ferrucio@aol.com
>To: rangarajan.1@osu.edu, stinner.1@osu.edu, stinner.2@osu.edu,
> info@nptn.org, zaborski.2@osu.edu, Nachovilla@aol.com, cote.1@osu.edu,
> T.BARTLETT@csuohio.edu, ecol-agric@mailbase.ac.uk
>Subject: Attra funding loss
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>To whom etcx
>Just got my ATTRA (Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas
>1-800-346-9140) newsletter and discovered that the House had cut their
>funding to zero. I called ATTRA and discovered that the Senate has just
>lumped them into a 3 million dollar package called: the Rural Technology and
>Cooperative Development Grants Program, which would insure their funding at
>current levels.
>Ohio has a House member on the agriculture sub-committee, Marcy Kaptur,
>democrat.
>The people at ATTRA asked that if you wish to make contact with your
>representatives regarding this issue, you ask them to support - the Senate
>version of the Rural Technology And Cooperative Development Grants Program at
>3 million dollars. They also requested that you ask them to support the 2
>million dollar Senate version of the Minority Farmer and Outreach Assistance
>Program.
>You can call the capital switchboard at 202-224-3121 to find your
>representatives number or you can contact Marcy Kaptur at 202-225-4146 or fax
>her at 202-225-7711.
>For anyone who has used the services of ATTRA, you know how important this
>issue is.
>For those who have not, I highly recommend that you call them at
>1-800-346-9140 and see what they're about.
>This issue is URGENT. The agriculture subcommittee will be meeting beginning
>this coming Wednesday 9/27/95 regarding this issue, so contact them NOW.
>Please.
>
>Thank you
>Mick Natco
>Innovative Farmers of Ohio
>216-834-4757
>fax216-834-0370
>
>

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Elizabeth Ann R. Bird, Ph.D.
Executive Director,
Consortium for Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education, and
Research and Technology Policy Project Leader,
Center for Rural Affairs
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