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<body background="graphics/lightstucco.jpg"> <h3 align="center">SHARE Advocacy Pages</h3> <p align="center"><a href="advmenu.html">Previous Reports</a> | <a href="share/soa_update.html">Previous SOA News</a> | <a href="delegations9900.htm">SHARE Delegations</a> | <a target="_top" href="http://www.info.usaid.gov/pubs/cp99/lac/sv.htm">USAID FY99 Budget Request to Congress</a> | Lobby Congress @<a href="http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/">Congress.org/</a></p> <hr width="67%"> <h2><a href="http://www.share-elsalvador.org" target="_top"><img src="graphics/sharelogo.gif" width="84" height="88" border="0" align="left" alt="SHARE logo"></a>SHARE Foundation Update, September 28, 1999</h2> <p><small><em>Posted for SHARE Foundation by <a href="http://www.osb.org/pab" target="_top">Partners Across Borders</a>, St. Cloud, MN</em></small></p> <p> </p> <h2><font color="#BF0F29">This notice just in from SOA WATCH. September 23. </font></h2> <h3>Conference Committee Rejects SOA Funding Cuts </h3> <p>On September 22, the House Foreign Operations Appropriations conference committee voted 8-7 to reject funding cuts to the SOA. This move effectively nullifies the July House vote to cut SOA funding, and it also means that the Senate conferees will not take up the issue of the SOA this year. </p> <p>This setback does not affect HR732 and S873, the House and Senate bills that call for the outright closing of the SOA. We have another whole year to gather enough co-sponsors to bring these bills to a vote. If your Representative and Senators have not yet co-sponsored, please ask them to do so. <ul> <li>For a list of current House co-sponsors, please see: <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:HR00732:@@@L">http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:HR00732:@@@L</a> </li> <li>For a list of current Senate co-sponsors, please see: <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:SN00873:@@@P">http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:SN00873:@@@P</a> </li> </ul> <p>It is also important to thank those conferees who voted the right way, and to chastise those who voted in essence to nullify the House vote. <ul> <li>Please thank: Obey (WI), Pelosi (CA), Lowey (NY), Jackson (IL), Kilpatrick (MI), Sabo (MN), and Porter (IL) </li> <li>A special thanks should go to Rep. Lowey for requesting a recorded vote, and to Rep. Porter for being the only Republican to vote the right way. </li> <li>We should also especially thank Rep. Moakley (MA) who introduced the original amendment and worked hard to defend it. </li> <li>Please express displeasure to: Young (FL), Callahan (AL), Wolf (VA), Packard (CA), Knollenberg (MI), Kingston (GA), Lewis (CA), Blunt (MO).</li> </ul> <ul> <li>If you do not know the names of your Representatives or Senators or if you want to find their e-mail, please see: <a href="http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ziptoit.html">http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ziptoit.html</a> or <a href="http://www.congress.org">http://www.congress.org</a>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>To read the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer's coverage of the vote, please go to: <a href="http://www.l-e-o.com/news/0923soacopy.htm">http://www.l-e-o.com/news/0923soacopy.htm</a></li> </ul> <hr> <p align="center"><a href="#contents">Return to contents <</a></p> <hr> <address> <small>http://www.osb.org/pab/advocacy.html</small><br> <small>posted for SHARE by Dennis Beach, OSB<br> <a href="http://www.osb.org/pab" target="_top">Partners Across Borders</a>, Saint Cloud, MN<br> SHARE Sister-city with Tenancingo El Salvador</small> </address> </body>