[Libs-Or] Contact your Senators - House passes omnibus bill including legislation to fund Library Services and Technology Act

[Diedre Conkling]

House passes omnibus bill including legislation to fund Library Services and
Technology Act <http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=4124>
December 10, 2009 ( No
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With time running short before the end of the year, the leadership in
Congress has chosen to wrap six of the remaining seven appropriations bills
into an omnibus bill and get the FY2010 budget to the President before the
Continuing Resolution (CR) runs out on December 18.  An omnibus bill is when
Congress will attach multiple, unfinished appropriations bills together and
pass them as one bill.  The seventh outstanding appropriations bill is the
defense bill, and that will be handled separately.

House and Senate Appropriations Committee members met late Tuesday evening
to conference and agreed the Transportation, and Housing and Urban
Development appropriations bill, or H.R. 3288, would be the vehicle for this
omnibus bill.  This bill will also include the Commerce-Justice-Science,
Financial Services, Labor-HHS-Education, Military Construction-VA, and
State-Foreign Operations bills.  The House then took the next step this
afternoon and passed the $446.8 billion omnibus bill with a 221-201 vote.
This bill contains $213.5 million for the Library Services and Technology
Act (LSTA) which is state grants for public libraries.

Next, the omnibus is still seeking Senate approval before it is sent to
President Obama for his signature.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)
expects the Senate to take up the omnibus either this weekend or early next
week.
Jeff Kratz <jkratz at alawash.org>
Assistant Director, OGR


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Diedre Conkling
Lincoln County Library District
P.O. Box 2027
Newport, OR  97365
Work phone & fax:  541-265-3066
Work email:  diedre at beachbooks.org
Home email:  diedre08 at gmail.com
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