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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 14:47:31 EDT
From:         "McKinzie, Steven" <MCKINZIE@DICKINSN.BITNET>
Subject:      Budget Cuts to Legislative Branch:

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Subject: Budget Cuts to Legislative Branch
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Colleagues--

  Readers of this board are likely to be interested in efforts
going on in Congress to cut legislative branch agencies across the
board.  These cuts would have serious effects on both the Library of
Congress and the Government Printing Office, and librarians should
make their views known.

  *Nothing has happened yet*, but the Senate is currently debating the
legislative budget.  It is understood that a 5% reduction in the
budgets of legislative branch agencies across the board is essentially
a done deal.  However, there are efforts to go much further.

  Originally, it was expected that Senator Brown would introduce a
proposal for a 25% cut across the board.  Overnight, however, the
idea has changed.  The latest is that Senator Symms (ID) or Senator
Seymour (CA) will introduce a proposal to cut the budgets by 13% this
year and 13% again next year.

  No one yet knows what will happen with these proposals.  What we do
know is that the impact on L.C. and the G.P.O. will be devastating.
We must respond to these proposals NOW by telephone or fax, not by
mail.  It could all be done in a few hours or a day.  Please make an
effort as soon as you receive this message to CONTACT YOUR OWN
SENATORS to express your concern about the proposal.  In addition, you
might want to contact

                        Phone                   FAX

  Senator Symms         (202) 224-6142          (202) 224-5893
  Senator Seymour             224-3841
  Senator Brown               224-5941
  Senator Sasser              224-3344                224-9590
  Senator Domenici            224-6621                224-7371

all of whom have indicated some interest in making this kind of a cut.
Certainly the amount of the cut should be rolled back, but in truth
even the 5% cut will have serious consequences.  As a result, we
should seek an exemption from the cut for both the Library of Congress
and the Government Printing Office.

  Numbers do count.  Please call.  Today.

  Thank you.

Bob Oakley

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  Robert L. Oakley (Bob)            PHONE:      (202) 662-9160
  Georgetown Univ. Law Library      FAX:        (202) 662-9202
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