The National Community Action Foundation David Bradley, Executive Director810 First Street, NE, Suite 530, Washington, DC 20002 www.ncaf.org(202) 842-2092 info@ ncaf.org

Volume 13, Number 2 January 27, 2006

CAP-FACTSImportant Legislative Developments

Provided to You byThe National Community Action Foundation

CSBG Letter to the PresidentCAA Action Needed ASAP!

Advocacy for FY 2007 CSBG Underway

Congressmen Dent (R-PA), Simmons (R-CT), Baird (D-W A) and English (R-PA) are circulating a DearColleague inviting Members of Congress to sign on to a joint letter to the President requesting that he include$630.4 million for CSBG in his FY 2007 Budget Request. As you know, this is equal to the final funding levelfor the program in FY 2006.

Since the deadline for the letter is next Tuesday, January 31, we need all CAAs to contact their Members ofCongress now and ask them to sign on to this letter. At the very least, we want to secure the support of all 122Members who signed on to last year’s English-Baird-Simmons letter.

Those 122 Members are:

Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI)Rep. Tom Allen (D-ME)Rep. Robert Andrews (D-NJ)Rep. Joe Baca (D-CA)Rep. Brian Baird (D-WA)Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-W I)Rep. John Barrow (D-GA)Rep. Judy Biggert (R-IL)Rep. Tim Bishop (D-NY)Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY)Rep. Dan Boren (D-OK)Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-IA)Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA)Rep. Jeb Bradley (R-NH)Rep. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC)Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI)Rep. Chris Cannon (R-UT)Rep. Michael Capuano (D-MA)Rep. Ben Cardin (D-MD)Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-MO)Rep. Ed Case (D-HI)Rep. Ben Chandler (D-KY)Rep. W illiam Lacy Clay (D-MO)Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO)Rep. John Conyers (D-MI)Rep. Jim Costa (D-CA)Rep. Jerry Costello (D-IL)Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD)Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL)Rep. Lincoln Davis (D-TN)

Rep. W illiam Delahunt (D-MA)Rep. Charles Dent (R-PA)Rep. Norman Dicks (D-W A)Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY)Rep. Phil English (R-PA)Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA)Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-NC)Rep. Lane Evans (D-IL)Rep. Sam Farr (D-CA)Rep. Michael Ferguson (R-NJ)Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA)Del. Luis Fortuno (R-PR)Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA)Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ)Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX)Rep. Melissa Hart (R-PA)Rep. Stephanie Herseth (D-SD)Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY)Rep. Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX)Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ)Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA)Rep. Darlene Hooley (D-OR)Rep. Jay Inslee (D-W A)Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)Rep. W illiam Jenkins (R-TN)Rep. Nancy Johnson (R-CT)Rep. Tim Johnson (R-IL)Rep. Dale Kildee (D-MI)Rep. Ron Kind (D-W I)Rep. Randy Kuhl (R-NY)Rep. Jim Langevin (D-RI)Rep. Rick Larsen (D-W A)

Rep. John Larson (D-CT)Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI)Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ)Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA)Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)Rep. Jim Marshall (D-GA)Rep. Jim Matheson (D-UT)Rep. Doris Matsui (D-CA)Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY)Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN)Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA)Rep. John McHugh (R-NY) Rep. Michael McNulty (D-NY)Rep. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) *Rep. Michael Michaud (D-ME)Rep. George Miller (D-CA) Rep. Dennis Moore (D-KS)Rep. Gwen Moore (D-W I) Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA)Rep. Timothy Murphy (R-PA)Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY)Rep. Grace Napolitano (D-CA)Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH)Rep. Solomon Ortiz (D-TX)Rep. Tom Osborne (R-NE)Rep. Major Owens (D-NY)Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ)Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN)Rep. Thomas E. Petri (R-W I)Rep. Todd Platts (R-PA)Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) Rep. David Price (D-NC)

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Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W V)Rep. Sylvestre Reyes (D-TX)Rep. Mike Ross (D-AR)Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH)Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)Rep. Joe Schwarz (R-MI)Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA)Rep. Chris Shays (R-CT)

Rep. Rob Simmons (R-CT)Rep. Adam Smith (D-W A)Rep. Ted Strickland (D-OH)Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI)Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA)Rep. John Tierney (D-MA)Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH)Rep. Michael Turner (R-OH)Rep. Tom Udall (D-NM)

Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)Rep. Diane W atson (D-CA)Rep. Henry W axman (D-CA)Rep. Curt W eldon (R-PA)Rep. Bob W exler (D-FL)Rep. Ed W hitfield (R-KY)Rep. Lynn W oolsey (D-CA)Rep. David W u (D-OR)

*Rep. Menendez is now a Senator.

Your Representatives should contact the offices of Congressmen Dent or Baird to sign on. Specificcontact information is included in the attached Dear Colleague letter.

CAAs should also contact NCAF to share the feedback received from Representatives’ offices. Eithercall NCAF at (202) 842-2092 or email Marci Phillips at marciphillips@ncaf.org.

We need you to act quickly on this outreach, as the deadline is only three days away.

Thank you in advance for work on this important effort. This is going to be the first step in many advocacyefforts on behalf of CSBG; expect another joint letter to appropriations in a few months.