<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">ALA Public Policy & Advocacy Office</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:imanager@alawash.org">imanager@alawash.org</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 1:05 PM<br>Subject: Deadline Approaching: Last Chance for this Congress to #FundLibraries<br>To: Lou Ann Jacobs <<a href="mailto:Legislation@aisled.org">Legislation@aisled.org</a>><br></div><br>If you haven’t contacted your Congressman about library funding, please do so now. Use the link below to contact Congress.</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto">Lou Ann Jacobs</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><a href="mailto:Legislation@aisled.org">Legislation@aisled.org</a><br><u></u>
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<p style="Margin-top:0;Margin-bottom:0">3 days left to make your voice heard, Lou</p><div style="height:0;max-height:0;overflow:hidden;font-size:0"> </div><p></p>
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<p style="Margin-top:0;Margin-bottom:0;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration:inherit">Hello Lou!</span></p><p style="Margin-top:20px;Margin-bottom:0">Last month’s midterm election means a changing balance of power in the House of Representatives. But before everything changes over at the start of 2023, the current Congress must finish its business, and <em>important library funding issues are on the line.</em></p><p style="Margin-top:20px;Margin-bottom:20px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration:inherit"><strong>Congress must decide next week</strong><strong> </strong>on government funding, and this could be our <strong>last chance to increase funding</strong> for crucial library programs before the new Congress is sworn in.<strong> </strong><em>Click
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<p style="Margin-top:0;Margin-bottom:0">We need you to write to your members of Congress and tell them to support:</p><ul style="Margin-top:20px;Margin-bottom:0;Margin-left:24px;padding:0;list-style-type:disc"><li style="Margin-top:20px;Margin-bottom:0;Margin-left:0">$20 million investment in library facilities funding – the <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#57a607" href="https://americanlibraryassociation.cmail19.com/t/i-l-qdrtrty-tdzxjkir-j/" target="_blank">first dedicated facilities funding</a> in 26 years!</li><li style="Margin-top:0;Margin-bottom:0;Margin-left:0">Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funding at $201 million</li><li style="Margin-top:0;Margin-bottom:0;Margin-left:0">Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL) funding at $32 million</li></ul><p style="Margin-top:20px;Margin-bottom:20px">Congress will wrap up a lot of crucial business in the post-election period, and <strong>we need your help</strong> so that libraries are not left out. <em>Add your voice</em> to our request, and together we can advocate for the value and urgency of funding libraries in every community!</p>
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