Funding Action in the Senate

Senator Snow (R-ME) is seeking fellow senators to sign on to a "Dear Colleague" letter asking that the $7 billion passed in the Senate Budget process be allocated to the Labor/Health and Human Services/Education appropriations committee. This amount would restore the cuts made to those programs within the committee's jurisdiction last year and bring them back to FY 2005 levels.

The Committee for Education Funding (CEF), a coalition of over 100 education groups, is asking for calls and emails to be sent into members of the Senate asking for them to sign on to this "Dear Colleague" letter.