Congress is out of session and will return the week of April 24.
SEVERAL FY18 DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTERS SUBMITTED TO APPROPRIATORS
Members of the House and Senate have submitted the following FY18 funding letters to congressional appropriators.
- National Endowment for the Humanities. A total of 144 House Members signed on to the letter circulated by Reps. David Price (D-NC) and Leonard Lance (R-NJ) requesting $155 million for NEH in FY18.
Thirty-nine Senators joined Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) in submitting an NEA/NEH letter requesting FY18 funding of no less than $149.8 million for each endowment.
- Energy Research Programs, including ARPA-E. Rep. Don Byer (D-VA) and 68 other Members of the House submitted a letter to appropriators requesting specific FY18 funding levels for the Department of Energy's ARPA-E, Innovation Hubs, Energy Frontier Research Centers, and Clean Energy Partnerships.
- Title VI International Education and Fulbright-Hays Program. Sixty-two House Members joined Reps. David Price (D-NC), Don Young (R-AK), and Joe Crowley (D-NY) in a letter urging appropriators to support at least FY16 funding levels for these programs.
Twenty-two Senators joined Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) in his letter requesting funding increases for the programs above the FY16 and FY17 levels.