>Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 19:43:34 -0500
>From: "ALAWASH E-MAIL" <ALAWASH@alawash.org>
>To: ALA Washington Office Newsline <ala-wo@ala1.ala.org>
>
>ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
>Volume 9, Number 100
>December 15, 2000
>
>In this issue:
>
>Congress Passes Labor HHS Education Appropriations Bill with Filtering
>Rider Attached
>
>         In a 292 to 60 vote, the House of Representatives has passed the
>Labor HHS Education Appropriations Bill (HR 4577) with the
>McCain-Santorum-Istook-Pickering Internet filtering rider attached. The
>Senate also passed the bill with a voice vote (no voting numbers
>available).
>
>The filtering rider mandates that libraries and schools use valuable
>resources to install and maintain unreliable Internet filters, or be
>stripped of key federal funding. With this bill, the federal government has
>seized control over families and communities and blocked their power to
>make decisions about the ways they protect their children.
>
>Our sources say that the Clinton Administration and Congress have reached
>a $6.5 billion funding increase for the bill. Conference Report funds LSTA
>library programs at $170 million. ESEA Title VI would be funded at $365.7
>million. School library supporters will be pleased to know that there is
>$1.2 billion for school modernization funds.
>
>As part of the Legislative Branch appropriations, GPO received $99.4
>million, down from $103.2 million in FY2000. The Library of Congress
>received $412.3 million, up from $394.4 million for FY 2000. No further
>details are available at this writing.
>
>We have been advised by key Congressional offices that the filtering rider
>is approximately the language summarized to us in October. But, like the
>final appropriations numbers themselves, we cannot confirm until we see and
>review the official bill language which was not available to us today.
>Since the vote has just taken place we will seek and review the bill as
>soon as possible. Stand by for future ALAWON reports.
>
>
>
>
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