The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education is scheduled to mark up their FY13 appropriations bill next Tuesday, June 12th. The Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee has been slated to receive $157.722 billion to divide up among its programs, including the Perkins Act. The full Appropriations Committee is scheduled to markup the Labor-HHS-Education bill on Thursday June 14th.
If your Senator is a member of the Appropriations Committee, we urge you contact them today and ask that they maintain Perkins Act funding. Given the threats to non-defense discretionary funding (including Perkins) from sequestration and other budget proposals, it is vital that members of Congress hear from constituents about the importance of Perkins and CTE in helping to prepare students for jobs that remain unfilled, and in turning around the economy.
Senate Appropriations Committee members (Labor-HHS-Education members denoted by asterisk):
- Â Daniel Inouye (HI)*
- Patrick Leahy (VT)
- Tom Harkin (IA)*
- Barbara Mikulski (MD)*
- Herb Kohl (WI)*
- Patty Murray (WA)*
- Dianne Feinstein (CA)
- Richard Durbin (IL)*
- Tim Johnson (SD)
- Mary Landrieu (LA)*
- Jack Reed (RI)*
- Frank Lautenberg (NJ)
- Ben Nelson (NE)
- Mark Pryor (AR)*
- Jon Tester (MT)
- Sherrod Brown (OH)*
- Thad Cochran (MS)*
- Mitch McConnell (KY)
- Richard Shelby (AL)*
- Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX)*
- Lamar Alexander (TN)*
- Susan Collins (ME)
- Lisa Murkowski (AK)
- Lindsey Graham (SC)*
- Mark Kirk (IL)*
- Dan Coats (IN)
- Roy Blunt (MO)
- Jerry Moran (KS)*
- John Hoeven (ND)
- Ron Johnson (WI)*
Call Your Senator TODAY!
-  Call the Senate switchboard at 202-224-3121, and ask to be connected to your Members’ office.
- Once connected to the Member’s office, ask to speak to the staffer that works on appropriations or education issues.
- Tell them that cuts to CTE and Perkins will hurt CTE students in every state. Insert concrete examples and data from your state about how students and programs will be impacted any cuts to Perkins. Make the case, where appropriate, that cuts will hurt the state’s economy
If you have any questions or to update NASDCTEc on your contact with Congress, please call Nancy Conneely, Public Policy Manager, at 301-588-9630 or email her at [email protected]
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