Funding Amendment - call for sign ons to a Dear Colleague

The overall education funding for the fiscal year (FY) 07 is slated to be cut – but we are hoping for a Specter – Harkin amendment to restore funding to FY05 levels.

Contact your Senator’s Office ask him/her to sign the Specter-Harkin “Dear Colleague” letter requesting an additional $7 billion for the Labor, Health & Human Services and Education appropriations bill (the federal education funding bill). A “Dear Colleague” letter is a request by a member to other members asking for their support.

Capital Switchboard 202-225-2121 Tell them your members name, they will connect you to the office.

The following Senators have already signed the Dear Colleague letter, call and thank them for supporting additional funding for the appropriations bill.
Republicans
DeWine
Snowe
Lugar
Collins
Chafee
Smith
Coleman
Roberts
Hatch
Burns
Murkowski


Democrats
Harkin
Akaka
Baucus
Bayh
Biden
Bingaman
Boxer
Cantwell
Carper
Clinton
Dayton
Dodd
Dorgan
Durbin
Feingold
Feinstein
Inouye
Jeffords
Johnson
Kennedy
Kerry
Kohl
Landrieu
Lautenberg
Leahy
Levin
Lieberman
Lincoln
Menendez
Mikulski Murray
Nelson,
Nelson
Obama
Pryor
Reed
Rockefeller
Salazar
Sarbanes
Schumer
Stabenow
Wyden