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Please take five minutes to make your voice heard! We need you to contact your members of Congress and ask them to fund libraries.

Note: The deadline to sign these appropriations letters is much shorter than in previous years. The letter leaders in Congress need to hear from other Congressional Members by March 10. Your advocacy is needed now.

• Visit the #FundLibraries campaign page to see if your members of Congress have signed on to the effort.
• If not they have not signed, please email your officials and urge them to sign on to the Dear Appropriator Letters in the House and Senate.
  • Use this template for the Senate
  • Use this template for the House

If you want to take an additional step, call the office directly as listed here:

• • Contact the House of Representatives operator at 202-225-3121 to speak to your Representative
    • Ask them to sign the “Grijalva-Young LSTA letter.” They can contact Flavio Bravo at Flavio.bravo@mail.house.gov or 202-225-2435 to sign.
    • Ask them to sign the “Johnson-Young-McGovern IAL Letter.” They can contact Nawaid Ladak at Nawaid.ladak@mail.house.gov or 202-225-8885 to sign.
  • Contact the Senate operator at 202-224-3121 to speak to both of your Senators offices.
    • Ask them to sign the “Reed-Collins LSTA Letter.” They can contact Elyse Wasch at Elyse.Wasch@Reed.Senate.gov or 202-224-4642 to sign.
    • Ask them to sign the Reed-Stabenow IAL Letter.” They can contact Moira Lenehan at Moira.Lenehan@reed.senate.gov or 202-224-4642 to sign.

Please share this note with your colleagues, friends, family, and any other library lovers in your life and ask them to make these requests. We need Congress to hear us, loud and clear.

Direct any questions to Kevin Maher in the ALA Public Policy & Advocacy office, kmaher@alawash.org.