Friday, April 27, 2012
FY13 House Appropriations Bill
$17.081 for operations
$0 for PAC
The full committee took up the bill yesterday and there were no amendments related to NERRS (or NOS).
NERRA will continue to make the push to members prior to the conference committee marks. In the meantime, any help from groups outside of the reserve to email letters of support and thanks for program support would be helpful.
We will continue to keep you posted...
Monday, April 23, 2012
FY13 Senate Appropriations -- early returns CONTINUED
NERRS PAC: $1.7M
B-WET grants: $7.5M
CELCP: $3M
Regional Ocean Partnerships: $4M
Again, thanks all around for your help in reaching out!
- Full Senate passes Appropriations bill
(hopefully without reducing the amounts passed by the Appropriations
Committee).
- House Appropriations full committee
hears and passes its bill and then the bill is scheduled and passed by the
House.
- A conference committee of Senate and
House members is formed to merge the two appropriations bills, after
agreement is reached, each chamber hears the revised bill.
- Once approved it is sent to the
President for signature.
We will continue to update the blog with information as it comes in.
Friday, April 20, 2012
FY13 Senate Appropriations -- early returns
We are pleased to report that the Senate Subcommittee and the full Appropriations Committee provided $22.3M for NERRS Operation!
Stay tuned for more to come on....
- Procurement, Acquisition, Construction (PAC)
- The Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program (CELCP) - this program was funded, specific amount to be announced
In attendance for the Senate subcommittee were the following members:
Democrats: Mikulski, Pryor, Lautenberg, Brown
Republicans: KBH, Shelby, Alexander, Johnson, Murkowski
NERRA will be sending out thank you emails to all Senate Appropriation Committee members and encourage anyone with Senators on Appropriations Committee to email a two or three sentence thank you note to the Senator's staff thanking them for their work as well as to the Senators for their NERRS program support (especially to those listed above because they were present for the mark).
It is extremely important that members know that folks back in the state are tracking on this. In addition, it is expected that there will be push back on members supporting budgets higher than the President's during the conference of the House and Senate bills.
Your emails help give Congressional members cover for supporting the $22.3M NERRS budget!
Thanks to all of you who have helped with letters of support!
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Congressional Appropriation Hearings this week!
Tuesday 230 EST Senate Approps CJS Subcommittee bill mark-up
Thursday 930 EST House Approps CJS Subcommittee bill mark-up
Time to be Announced, expected Senate Full Approps Committee bill mark-up
See list below of Senators and Representatives on Sub and Full Committee who have reserves in their state. To help you can....
1) Email a note to staff reminding the senator of our support request and include FY13 primer found on Resources and Documents page or
2) Email a letter of support based on the template provided on Resources and Documents page.
The most important thing is to make contact -- even if you are out this week or unable to send an email before the subcommittees or full committee mark-ups, send an email after asking for their continued support during the future appropriations hearings by full house or senate and then by conference committee.
Senate CJS Appropriations Sub Comm
Mikulski-MD |
Feinstein-CA |
Lautenberg-NJ |
Shelby-AL |
Brown-OH |
Baily Hutchinson-TX |
Murkowski-AK |
Reed-RI |
Collins-ME |
Graham--SC |
Senate Appropriations Comm
Kohl--WI
Murray--WA
Cochran--MS
House Appropr Committee (no CJS subcommittee members per se)
Bonner-AL |
Kingston-GA |
Kaptur-OH |
Farr-CA |
Wolfe -VA |
Schiff -CA (sub, no NERR) |
Honda -CA (sub noNERR) |