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LIBRARY LEGISLATIVE DAY May 6, 1997 Washington, DC

8:00 a.m.-8:30 a.m. Briefing Folder Pickup. Outside Room G-50 Senate Dirksen Office Building

8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Review of key messages for Congressional Offices. FOLUSA award presented to Sen. Jim Jeffords (R-VT) and Rep. William F. Goodling (R-PA)

ALL DAY Congressional Office Visits

Noon Review of key messages for congressional offices. Dirksen Cafeteria, North Servery

4:30 p.m. Photo Session. All participants meet for a group photograph on the front steps of the Jefferson Building (weather permitting).

5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Congressional Reception. U. S. Capitol, Room HC-5 (basement level).

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For Immediate Release Contact: Joyce Kelly/Linda Wallace March 20, 1997 312-280-5043/5042

Supreme Court hears CDA challenge; ALA attorney argues case

Washington, D.C. -- In a rare action reflecting the significance and complexity of the issue being

heard, the Supreme Court allowed attorneys arguing the constitutionality of the Communications Decency

Act (CDA) an additional IO minutes to present their cases.

Elizabeth Martinez, executive director of the American Library Association (ALA) and Judith

Krug, director of the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom, said they were impressed by the number of

questions asked by the justices, many of which focused on the liability of parents for their children, and

whether teenagers and adults who engage in online conversations of a sexual nature would be subject to

prosecution.

Martinez noted that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, in particular, asked about the impact on public

access to online catalogs and other information provided by libraries and the legal implications for

libraries. "I'm optimistic the justices will act to uphold freedom of speech in cyberspace," Martinez said.

Krug described the hearing as "awesome" and added, "It's not over yet. This case will set the

standard against which other cases will be measured for the foreseeable future."

Bruce Ennis, attorney for the American Library Association and Freedom to Read Foundation,

represented the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a coalition of organizations challenging the

law at the hearing held March 19. Ennis said he felt the case got a thorough and thoughtful hearing.

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"The Court seems to understand that the Internet is a unique medium and cannot be subject to the

restrictions on speech which apply in mass media such as radio and television," Ennis said.

In his arguments, Ennis focused on four points. He said the law, passed by Congress last year as

part of the Telecommunications Act, violates the First Amendment right of free speech for adults by

outlawing any material on the Internet that could be considered "indecent" or "patently offensive by

community standards" for minors. He argued that the law would not effectively protect children since

some 40 percent of indecent material originates in other countries and that there are less restrictive means

of protecting children, including parental supervision and use of filtering devices. Ennis also charged that

the vagueness of the law's wording, coupled with severe penalties, would undoubtedly have a chilling

speech on speech that is not considered indecent under the law.

Seth Waxman, a Justice Department attorney, argued that the law is necessary to protect children

from inappropriate material available on some 8,000 sites. He claimed the Internet provides children "a

free pass into the equivalent of every adult bookstore and every adult video store in the country."

Under the Act, passed last year as part of the Telecommunications Act, any person who

knowingly sends or displays "indecent" materials over the Internet to minors could be imprisoned for up

to two years and fined up to $250,000.

The Supreme Court case, titled Reno v. ACLU, combines suits filed by the American Civil

Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition, which includes the American

Library Association as lead plaintiff and its sister organization, the Freedom To Read Foundation. Two

federal district courts upheld the challenges and issued injunctions against its enforcement. The rulings were appealed by the U.S. Department of Justice.

The Supreme Court is expected to issue a decision before its summer recess at the end of June. A transcript of the hearing is at http://www.aclu.org/issues/cyber/trial/sctran.htrnl listed in state order State Partv Senator Rm. No. and Bldi:;. Code AK R 522 SHOB AK R Frank H. Murkowski 706 SHOB AL R Richard C. Shelby 110 SHOB AL R Jeff Sessions 34 SDOB AR D Dale L. Bumpers 229 SDOB AR R Y. Tim Hutchinson 708 SHOB AZ R John McCain 241 SROB AZ R Jon Kyl 702 SHOB CA D 331 SHOB CA D 112 SHOB co R Ben Nighthorse Campbell 380 SROB co R Wayne Allard 716 SHOB CT D Christopher J. Dodd 444 SROB CT D Joseph I. Lieberman 316 SHOB DE R William V. Roth, Jr. 104 SHOB DE D Joseph R. Biden 221 SROB FL D 524 SHOB FL R Connie Mack 517 SHOB GA R Paul D. Coverdell 200 SROB GA D Max Cleland 463 SDOB HI D Daniel K. Inouye 722 SHOB HI D Daniel K. Akaka 720 SHOB IA R Charles E. Grassley 135 SHOB IA D Tom Harkin 531 SHOB ID R Larry E. Craig 313 SHOB ID R Dirk Kempthome 367 SDOB IL D Carol Moseley-Braun 320 SHOB IL D Richard J. Durbin 267 SROB IN R Richard G. Lugar 306 SHOB IN R Dan Coats 404 SROB KS R 141 SHOB KS R Pat Roberts 302 SROB KY D Wendell H. Ford 173A SROB KY R Mitch McConnell 361A SROB LA D John B. Breaux 516 SHOB LA D Mary L. Landrieu 825 SHOB MA D Edward M. Kennedy 315 SROB MA D John F. Kerry 421 SROB MD D Paul S. Sar banes 309 SHOB MD D Barbara A. Mikulski 709 SHOB ME R Olympia J. Snowe 495 SROB ME R Susan M. Collins 40 SDOB MI D Carl Levin 459 SROB MI R Spencer Abraham 245 SDOB American Library Association Washington Office, Library Legislative Day, May 6, 1997 Page I of3 I State Partv Senator Rm. No. and Bid~. Code MN D Paul D. Wellstone 717 SHOB MN R Rod Grams 261 SDOB MO R Christopher S. Bond 293 SROB MO R 170 SROB MS R 326 SROB MS R 487 SROB MT D Max S. Baucus 511 SHOB MT R Conrad Burns 187 SDOB NC R Jesse A. Helms 403 SDOB NC R Lauch Faircloth 317 SHOB ND D Kent Conrad 724 SHOB ND D Byron L. Dorgan 713 SHOB NE D Bob Kerrey 303 SHOB NE R Chuck Hagel 528 SHOB NH R Robert C. Smith 332 SDOB NH R Judd Gregg 393 SROB NJ D Frank R. Lautenberg 506 SHOB NJ D Robert G. Torricelli 728 SHOB NM R Pete V. Domenici 328 SHOB NM D Jeff Bingaman 703 SHOB NV D Harry M. Reid 324 SHOB NV D Richard H. Bryan 364 SROB NY D Daniel Patrick Moynihan 464 SROB NY R Alfonse M. D'Amato 520 SHOB OH D John Glenn 503 SHOB OH R Mike DeWine 140 SROB OK R 133 SHOB OK R James M. lnhofe 453 SROB OR D 259 SROB OR R Gordon Smith 711 SHOB PA R 530 SHOB PA R 120 SROB RI R John H. Chafee 505 SDOB RI D Jack Reed 339 SROB SC R Strom Thurmond 217 SROB SC D Ernest F. Hollings 125 SROB SD D Thomas A. Daschle 509 SHOB SD D Tim Johnson 528 SHOB TN R Fred Thompson 523 SDOB TN R Bill Frist 565 SDOB TX R Phil Gramm 370 SROB TX R 283 SROB UT R Orrin G. Hatch 131 SROB UT R Robert F. Bennett 431 SDOB VA R John W. Warner 225 SROB VA D Charles S. Robb 154 SROB

American Library Association Washington Office. Library Legislative Day, May 6, 1997 Page2of3 State Partv Senator Rm. No. and Bldi:;. Code VT D Patrick J. Leahy 433 SROB VT R James M. Jeffords 513 SHOB WA R Slade Gorton 730 SHOB WA D Patty Murray 111 SROB WI D Herb Kohl 330 SHOB WI D Russell D. Feingold 502 SHOB WV D Robert C. Byrd 311 SHOB WV D John D. Rockefeller, IV 109 SHOB WY R Craig Thomas 302 SHOB WY R Michael B. Enzi 116 SHOB

Building Codes SHOB Senate Hart Office Building SDOB Senate Dirksen Office Building SROB Senate Russell Office Building

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listed 1n swte order State District Partv Re2resentative Rm. No. and Bid&· Code AK AL R Don Young 2111 RHOB AL 01 R Sonny Callahan 2418 RHOB AL 02 R Terry Everett 208 CHOB AL 03 R Bob Riley 510 CHOB AL 04 R Robert Aderholt 1007 LHOB AL 05 D Robert E. "Bud" Cramer, Jr. 2416 RHOB AL 06 R Spencer T. Bachus, III 442 CHOB AL 07 D Earl F. Hilliard 1314 LHOB AR 01 D Marion Berry 1407 LHOB AR 02 D Victor F. Snyder 1319 LHOB AR 03 R W. Asa Hutchinson 1535 LHOB AR 04 R Jay Dickey 2453 RHOB AS AL D Eni F. H. Faleomavaega 2422 RHOB AZ 01 R 115 CHOB AZ 02 D 2465 RHOB AZ 03 R 211 CHOB AZ 04 R 430 CHOB AZ 05 R 205 CHOB AZ 06 R J. D. Hayworth 1023 LHOB CA 01 R 1714 LHOB CA 02 R 2433 LHOB CA 03 D 2113 RHOB CA 04 R John T. Doolittle 1526 LHOB CA 05 D Robert T. Matsui 2308 RHOB CA 06 D 439 CHOB CA 07 D George Miller 2205 RHOB CA 08 D 2457 RHOB CA 09 D Ronald V. Dellums 2108 RHOB CA 10 D Ellen O. Tauscher 1440 LHOB CA 11 R Richard W. Pombo 1519 LHOB CA 12 D 2217 RHOB CA 13 D 239 CHOB CA 14 D Anna G. Eshoo 308 CHOB CA 15 R Tom Campbell 2442 RHOB CA 16 D 318 CHOB CA 17 D 1117 LHOB CA 18 D Gary A. Condit 2245 RHOB CA 19 R George P. Radanovich 213 CHOB CA 20 D Calvin M. Dooley 1201 LHOB CA 21 R William M. Thomas 2208 RHOB CA 22 D Walter H. Capps 1118 LHOB CA 23 R 2427 RHOB CA 24 D 1524 LHOB

American Library Association Washington Office, Library Legislative Day, May 6, 1997 Page I oflO I State District Partv Re2resentative Rm. No. and Bldg. Code CA 25 R Howard P. "Buck" McKeon 307 CHOB CA 26 D Howard L. Berman 2330 RHOB CA 27 R James E. Rogan 502 CHOB CA 28 R 237 CHOB CA 29 D Henry A. Waxman 2204 RHOB CA 30 D 1119 LHOB CA 31 D Matthew G. Martinez 2234 RHOB CA 32 D Julian C. Dixon 2252 RHOB CA 33 D Lucille Roybal-Allard 2435 RHOB CA 34 D Esteban E. Torres 2269 RHOB CA 35 D 2344 RHOB CA 36 D 325 CHOB CA 37 D Juanita Millender-McDonald 419 CHOB CA 38 R Stephen Hom 438 CHOB CA 39 R Edward R. Royce 1133 LHOB CA 40 R Jerry Lewis 2112 RHOB CA 41 R Jay C. Kim 227 CHOB CA 42 D George E. Brown, Jr. 2300 RHOB CA 43 R 1034 LHOB CA 44 R 324 CHOB CA 45 R 2338 RHOB CA 46 D 1529 LHOB CA 47 R 2402 RHOB CA 48 R 2372 RHOB CA 49 R Brian P. Bil bray 1530 LHOB CA 50 D 330 CHOB CA 51 R Randy "Duke" Cunningham 2238 RHOB CA 52 R Duncan Hunter 2265 RHOB co 01 D Diana L. DeGette 1404 LHOB co 02 D David E. Skaggs 1124 LHOB co 03 R Scott Mcinnis 215 CHOB co 04 R Robert W. Schaffer 212 CHOB co 05 R Joel Hefley 2230 RHOB co 06 R Dan Schaefer 2160 RHOB CT 01 D Barbara B. Kennelly 201 CHOB CT 02 D Sam Gejdenson 1401 LHOB CT 03 D Rosa L. DeLauro 436 CHOB CT 04 R Christopher Shays 1502 LHOB CT 05 D James H. Maloney 1213 LHOB CT 06 R Nancy L. Johnson 343 CHOB DC AL D Eleanor Holmes Norton 1424 LHOB DE AL R Michael N. Castle 1227 LHOB FL 01 R Joe Scarborough 127 CHOB FL 02 D F. Allen Boyd, Jr. 1237 LHOB FL 03 D Corrine Brown 1610 LHOB FL 04 R Tillie K. Fowler 109 CHOB

American Library Association Washington Office, Library Legislative Day, May 6, 1997 Page 2 of 10 State District Partv Reeresentative Rm. No. and Bldg. Code FL 05 D Karen L. Thurman 440 CHOB FL 06 R Clifford B. Stearns 2352 RHOB FL 07 R John L. Mica 106 CHOB FL 08 R Bill McCollum 2266 RHOB FL 09 R Michael Bilirakis 2369 RHOB FL 10 R C. W. "Bill" Young 2407 RHOB FL 11 D James 0. Davis 327 CHOB FL 12 R Charles T. Canady 2432 RHOB FL 13 R Dan Miller 102 CHOB FL 14 R Porter J. Goss 108 CHOB FL 15 R Dave Weldon 216 CHOB FL 16 R Mark Foley 113 CHOB FL 17 D Carrie P. Meek 401 CHOB FL 18 R Ileana Ros-Lehtinen 2240 RHOB FL 19 D Robert Wexler 1609 LHOB FL 20 D Peter Deutsch 204 CHOB FL 21 R Lincoln Diaz-Balart 404 CHOB FL 22 R E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 2408 RHOB FL 23 D Alcee L. Hastings 1039 LHOB GA 01 R Jack Kingston 1507 LHOB GA 02 D Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. 1433 LHOB GA 03 R Michael A. "Mac" Collins 1131 LHOB GA 04 D Cynthia A. McKinney 124 CHOB GA 05 D 229 CHOB GA 06 R 2428 RHOB GA 07 R Bob Barr 1130 LHOB GA 08 R Saxby Chambliss 1019 LHOB GA 09 R Nathan Deal 1406 LHOB GA 10 R Charles W. Norwood, Jr. 1707 LHOB GA 11 R John Linder 1005 LHOB GU AL D Robert A. Underwood 424 CHOB HI 01 D Neil Abercrombie 1233 LHOB HI 02 D Patsy T. Mink 2135 RHOB IA 01 R James A. Leach 2186 RHOB IA 02 R Jim Nussle 303 CHOB IA 03 D Leonard L. Boswell 1029 LHOB IA 04 R Greg Ganske 1108 LHOB IA 05 R Tom Latham 516 CHOB ID 01 R Helen Chenoweth 1727 LHOB ID 02 R Michael D. Crapo 437 CHOB IL 01 D Bobby L. Rush 131 CHOB IL 02 D Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. 313 CHOB IL 03 D William 0. Lipinski 1501 LHOB IL 04 D Luis V. Gutierrez 2438 RHOB IL 05 D Rod R. Blagojevich 501 CHOB IL 06 R Henry J. Hyde 2110 RHOB

American Library Association Washington Office. Library Legislative Day, May 6, 1997 Page 3 of 10 I State District Partv Re2resentative Rm. No. and Bldg. Code IL 07 D Danny K. Davis 1218 LHOB IL 08 R Philip M. Crane 233 CHOB IL 09 D Sidney R. Yates 2109 RHOB IL 10 R John Edward Porter 2373 RHOB IL 11 R Gerald C. Weller 130 CHOB IL 12 D Jerry F. Costello 2454 RHOB IL 13 R Harris W. Fawell 2368 RHOB IL 14 R J. 2241 RHOB IL 15 R Thomas W. Ewing 2417 RHOB IL 16 R Donald A. Manzullo 409 CHOB IL 17 D Lane Evans 2335 RHOB IL 18 R Ray LaHood 329 CHOB IL 19 D Glenn Poshard 2334 RHOB IL 20 R John M. Shimkus 513 CHOB IN 01 D Peter J. Visclosky 2313 RHOB IN 02 R David M. McIntosh 1208 LHOB IN 03 D Tim Roemer 2348 RHOB IN 04 R Mark E. Souder 418 CHOB IN 05 R Stephen E. Buyer 326 CHOB IN 06 R Dan Burton 2185 RHOB IN 07 R Edward A. Pease 226 CHOB IN 08 R John N. Hostettler 431 CHOB IN 09 D Lee H. Hamilton 2314 RHOB IN 10 D Julia M. Carson 1541 LHOB KS 01 R Jerry Moran 1217 LHOB KS 02 R Jim Ryun 511 CHOB KS 03 R Vince K. Snowbarger 509 CHOB KS 04 R Todd Tiahrt 428 CHOB KY 01 R Edward Whitfield 236 CHOB KY 02 R Ron Lewis 223 CHOB KY 03 R Anne M. Northup 1004 LHOB KY 04 R Jim Bunning 2437 RHOB KY 05 R Harold Rogers 2468 RHOB KY 06 D Scotty Baesler 2463 RHOB LA 01 R Bob Livingston 2406 RHOB LA 02 D William J. Jefferson 240 CHOB LA 03 R W. J. "Billy" Tauzin 2183 RHOB LA 04 R Jim McCrery 2104 RHOB LA 05 R John C. Cooksey 317 CHOB LA 06 R Richard H. Baker 434 CHOB LA 07 D Christopher C. John 1504 LHOB MA 01 D John W. Olver 1027 LHOB MA 02 D Richard E. Neal 2236 RHOB MA 03 D James P. McGovern 512 CHOB MA 04 D 2210 RHOB MA 05 D Martin T. Meehan 2434 RHOB

American Library Association Washington Office. Library Legislative Day, May 6, 1997 Page 4 of 10 State District Partv Representative Rm. No. and Bldg. Code MA 06 D John F. Tierney 120 CHOB MA 07 D Edward J. Markey 2133 RHOB MA 08 D Joseph P. Kennedy, II 2242 RHOB MA 09 D John Joseph Moakley 235 CHOB MA 10 D William D. Delahunt 1517 LHOB MD 01 R Wayne T. Gilchrest 332 CHOB MD 02 R Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr. 315 CHOB MD 03 D Benjamin L. Cardin 104 CHOB MD 04 D Albert R. Wynn 407 CHOB MD 05 D Steny H. Hoyer 1705 LHOB MD 06 R Roscoe G. Bartlett 322 CHOB MD 07 D Elijah E. Cummings 1632 LHOB MD 08 R Constance A. Morella 2228 RHOB ME 01 D Thomas H. Allen 1630 LHOB ME 02 D John E. Baldacci 1740 LHOB MI 01 D Bart Stupak 1410 LHOB MI 02 R Peter Hoekstra 1122 LHOB MI 03 R Vernon J. Ehlers 1717 LHOB MI 04 R Dave Camp 137 CHOB MI 05 D James A. Barcia 2419 RHOB MI 06 R Fred Upton 2333 RHOB MI 07 R Nick Smith 306 CHOB MI 08 D Deborah A. Stabenow 1516 LHOB MI 09 D Dale E. Kildee 2187 RHOB MI 10 D David E. Bonior 2207 RHOB MI 11 R Joe Knollenberg 1511 LHOB MI 12 D Sander M. Levin 2209 RHOB MI 13 D Lynn N. Rivers 1724 LHOB MI 14 D , Jr. 2426 RHOB MI 15 D Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick 503 CHOB MI 16 D John D. Dingell 2328 RHOB MN 01 R Gil Gutknecht 425 CHOB MN 02 D David Minge 1415 LHOB MN 03 R Jim Ramstad 103 CHOB MN 04 D Bruce F. Vento 2304 RHOB MN 05 D Martin Olav Sabo 2336 RHOB MN 06 D Bill Luther 117 CHOB MN 07 D Collin C. Peterson 2159 RHOB MN 08 D James L. Oberstar 2366 RHOB MO 01 D William "Bill" L. Clay 2306 RHOB MO 02 R James M. Talent 1022 LHOB MO 03 D Richard A. Gephardt 1226 LHOB MO 04 D Ike Skelton 2227 RHOB MO 05 D Karen McCarthy 1232 LHOB MO 06 D Pat Danner 1207 LHOB MO 07 R Roy D. Blunt 508 CHOB

American Library Association Washington Office. Library Legislative Day. May 6. 1997 Page 5 of 10 I State District Partv Reeresentative Rm. No. and Bldg. Code MO 08 R Jo Ann Emerson 132 CHOB MO 09 R Kenny Hulshof 1728 LHOB MS 01 R Roger F. Wicker 206 CHOB MS 02 D Bennie G. Thompson 1408 LHOB MS 03 R Charles W. Pickering, Jr. 427 CHOB MS 04 R Mike Parker 2445 RHOB MS 05 D Gene Taylor 2447 RHOB MT AL R Rick Hill 1037 LHOB NC 01 D Eva M. Clayton 2440 RHOB NC 02 D Bobby R. Etheridge 1641 LHOB NC 03 R Walter B. Jones, Jr. 422 CHOB NC 04 D David E. Price 2162 RHOB NC 05 R Richard M. Burr 1513 LHOB NC 06 R Howard Coble 2239 RHOB NC 07 D Mike McIntyre 1605 LHOB NC 08 D W. G. "Bill" Hefner 2470 RHOB NC 09 R Sue Myrick 230 CHOB NC 10 R Cass Ballenger 2182 RHOB NC 11 R Charles H. Taylor 231 CHOB NC 12 D Melvin L. Watt 1230 LHOB ND AL D Earl Pomeroy 1533 LHOB NE 01 R Doug Bereuter 2184 RHOB NE 02 R Jon Christensen 413 CHOB NE 03 R Bill Barrett 2458 RHOB NH 01 R John E. Sununu 1229 LHOB NH 02 R Charles F. Bass 218 CHOB NJ 01 D Robert E. Andrews 2439 RHOB NJ 02 R Frank A. LoBiondo 222 CHOB NJ 03 R Jim Saxton 339 CHOB NJ 04 R Christopher H. Smith 2370 RHOB NJ 05 R Marge Roukema 2469 RHOB NJ 06 D Frank Pallone, Jr. 420 CHOB NJ 07 R Bob Franks 225 CHOB NJ 08 D William J. Pascrell, Jr. 1722 LHOB NJ 09 D Steven R. Rothman 1607 LHOB NJ 10 D Donald M. Payne 2244 RHOB NJ 11 R Rodney P. Frelinghuysen 228 CHOB NJ 12 R Mike Pappas 1710 LHOB NJ 13 D Robert Menendez 405 CHOB NM 01 R Steven H. Schiff 2404 RHOB NM 02 R Joe Skeen 2302 RHOB NM 03 Seat open 2268 RHOB NV 01 R 414 CHOB NV 02 R Jim Gibbons 1116 LHOB NY 01 R Michael P. Forbes 416 CHOB NY 02 R Rick A. Lazio 2444 RHOB

American Library Association Washington Office, Library Legislative Day, May 6, 1997 Page 6 of 10 State District Partv Reeresentative Rm. No. and Bldg. Code NY 03 R Peter T. King 403 CHOB NY 04 D Carolyn McCarthy 1725 LHOB NY 05 D Gary L. Ackerman 2243 RHOB NY 06 D Floyd H. Flake 1035 LHOB NY 07 D Thomas J. Manton 2235 RHOB NY 08 D Jerrold Nadler 2448 RHOB NY 09 D Charles E. Schumer 2211 RHOB NY 10 D Edolphus Towns 2232 RHOB NY 11 D Major R. Owens 2305 RHOB NY 12 D Nydia M. Velazquez 1221 LHOB NY 13 R Susan Molinari 2411 RHOB NY 14 D Carolyn B. Maloney 1330 LHOB NY 15 D Charles B. Rangel 2354 RHOB NY 16 D Jose' E. Serrano 2342 RHOB NY 17 D Eliot L. Engel 2303 RHOB NY 18 D Nita M. Lowey 2421 RHOB NY 19 R Sue W. Kelly 1222 LHOB NY 20 R Benjamin A. Gilman 2449 RHOB NY 21 D Michael R. McNulty 2161 RHOB NY 22 R Gerald B. H. Solomon 2206 RHOB NY 23 R Sherwood L. Boehlert 2246 RHOB NY 24 R John M. McHugh 2441 RHOB NY 25 R James T. Walsh 2351 RHOB NY 26 D Maurice D. Hinchey 2431 RHOB NY 27 R Bill Paxon 2412 RHOB NY 28 D Louise M. Slaughter 2347 RHOB NY 29 D John J. LaFalce 2310 RHOB NY 30 R Jack Quinn 331 CHOB NY 31 R Amo Houghton 1110 LHOB OH 01 R Steven J. Chabot 129 CHOB OH 02 R Rob Portman 238 CHOB OH 03 D Tony P. Hall 1432 LHOB OH 04 R Michael G. Oxley 2233 RHOB OH 05 R Paul E. Gillmor 1203 LHOB OH 06 D Ted Strickland 336 CHOB OH 07 R David L. Hobson 1514 LHOB OH 08 R John A. Boehner 1011 LHOB OH 09 D Marcy Kaptur 2311 RHOB OH 10 D Dennis J. Kucinich 1730 LHOB OH 11 D Louis Stokes 2365 RHOB OH 12 R John R. Kasich 1111 LHOB OH 13 D Sherrod Brown 328 CHOB OH 14 D Thomas C. Sawyer 1414 LHOB OH 15 R Deborah Pryce 221 CHOB OH 16 R Ralph Regula 2309 RHOB OH 17 D James A. Traficant, Jr. 2446 RHOB

American Library Association Washington Office. Library Legislative Day. May 6, 1997 Page 7 of 10 I State District Partv Reeresentative Rm. No. and Bld2. Code OH 18 R Robert W. Ney 1024 LHOB OH 19 R Steven C. LaTourette 1239 LHOB OK 01 R Steve Largent 426 CHOB OK 02 R Tom A. Coburn 429 CHOB OK 03 R Wes W. Watkins 2312 RHOB OK 04 R J. C. Watts, Jr. 1210 LHOB OK 05 R Ernest J. Istook, Jr. 119 CHOB OK 06 R Frank D. Lucas 107 CHOB OR 01 D Elizabeth Furse 316 CHOB OR 02 R Robert F. Smith 1126 LHOB OR 03 D Earl Blumenauer 1113 LHOB OR 04 D Peter A. Defazio 2134 RHOB OR 05 D Darlene Hooley 1419 LHOB PA 01 D Thomas M. F oglietta 242 CHOB PA 02 D 1205 LHOB PA 03 D Robert A. Borski 2267 RHOB PA 04 D 125 CHOB PA 05 R John E. Peterson 1020 LHOB PA 06 D 1421 LHOB PA 07 R 2452 RHOB PA 08 R James C. Greenwood 2436 RHOB PA 09 R 2188 RHOB PA 10 R Joseph M. McDade 2107 RHOB PA 11 D Paul E. Kanjorski 2353 RHOB PA 12 D John P. Murtha 2423 RHOB PA 13 R Jon D. Fox 435 CHOB PA 14 D William J. Coyne 2455 RHOB PA 15 D Paul McHale 217 CHOB PA 16 R Joseph R. Pitts 504 CHOB PA 17 R George W. Gekas 2410 RHOB PA 18 D Michael F. Doyle 133 CHOB PA 19 R William F. Goodling 2263 RHOB PA 20 D Frank R. Mascara 314 CHOB PA 21 R 1721 LHOB PR 00 D Carlos A. Romero-Barcelo 2443 RHOB RI 01 D Patrick J. Kennedy 312 CHOB RI 02 D Robert A. Weygand 507 CHOB SC 01 R Marshall "Mark" Sanford 1223 LHOB SC 02 R Floyd D. Spence 2405 RHOB SC 03 R Lindsey O. Graham 1429 LHOB SC 04 R Bob Inglis 320 CHOB SC 05 D John M. Spratt, 1536 LHOB SC 06 D James E. Clyburn 319 CHOB SD AL R John R. Thune 506 CHOB TN 01 R William L. Jenkins 1708 LHOB TN 02 R John J. Duncan, Jr. 2400 RHOB

American Library Association Washington Office, Library Legislative Day, May 6, 1997 Page 8 of 10 State District Partv Re2resentative Rm. No. and Bldg. Code TN 03 R Zach Wamp 423 CHOB TN 04 R Van Hilleary 114 CHOB TN 05 D Bob Clement 2229 RHOB TN 06 D Bart Gordon 2201 RHOB TN 07 R Ed Bryant 408 CHOB TN 08 D John S. Tanner 1127 LHOB TN 09 D Harold E. Ford, Jr. 1523 LHOB TX 01 D Max Sandlin 214 CHOB TX 02 D Jim Turner 1508 LHOB TX 03 R Sam Johnson 1030 LHOB TX 04 D Ralph M. Hall 2221 RHOB TX 05 R Pete Sessions 1318 LHOB TX 06 R Joe Barton 2264 RHOB TX 07 R Bill Archer 1236 LHOB TX 08 R Kevin Brady 1531 LHOB TX 09 D Nick Lampson 417 CHOB TX 10 D Lloyd Doggett 126 CHOB TX 11 D Chet Edwards 2459 RHOB TX 12 R Kay Granger 515 CHOB TX 13 R William M. "Mac" Thornberry 412 CHOB TX 14 R 203 CHOB TX 15 D Ruben E. Hinojosa 1032 LHOB TX 16 D Silvestre Reyes 514 CHOB TX 17 D Charles W. Stenholm 1211 LHOB TX 18 D Sheila Jackson Lee 410 CHOB TX 19 R Larry Combest 1026 LHOB TX 20 D Henry B. Gonzalez 2413 RHOB TX 21 R 2231 RHOB TX 22 R Tom DeLay 341 CHOB TX 23 R Henry Bonilla 1427 LHOB TX 24 D Martin Frost 2256 RHOB TX 25 D Ken Bentsen 128 CHOB TX 26 R Richard K. Armey 301 CHOB TX 27 D Solomon P. Ortiz 2136 RHOB TX 28 D Ciro Rodriguez 323 CHOB TX 29 D Gene Green 2429 RHOB TX 30 D Eddie Bernice Johnson 1123 LHOB UT 01 R James V. Hansen 2466 RHOB UT 02 R Merrill A. Cook 1431 LHOB UT 03 R Christopher B. Cannon 118 CHOB VA 01 R Herbert H. Bateman 2350 RHOB VA 02 D Owen B. Pickett 2430 RHOB VA 03 D Robert C. Scott 2464 RHOB VA 04 D Norman Sisisky 2371 RHOB VA 05 D Virgil H. Goode, Jr. 1520 LHOB VA 06 R 123 CHOB

American Library Association Washington Office, Library Legislative Day, May 6, 1997 Page 9 of JO I~ State District Partv Re2resentative Rm. No. and Bldg. Code VA 07 R Thomas J. Bliley, Jr. 2409 RHOB VA 08 D James P. Moran 1214 LHOB VA 09 D Rick Boucher 2329 RHOB VA 10 R Frank R. Wolf 241 CHOB VA 11 R Thomas M. Davis, III 224 CHOB VI AL D Donna Christian Green 1711 LHOB VT AL I Bernard Sanders 2202 RHOB WA 01 R Rick White 116 CHOB WA 02 R Jack Metcalf 1510 LHOB WA 03 R Linda Smith 1317 LHOB WA 04 R Richard "Doc" Hastings 1323 LHOB WA 05 R George Nethercutt 1527 LHOB WA 06 D Norm Dicks 2467 RHOB WA 07 D Jim McDermott 2349 RHOB WA 08 R Jennifer B. Dunn 432 CHOB WA 09 D Adam Smith 1505 LHOB WI 01 R Mark W. Neumann 415 CHOB WI 02 R Scott L. Klug 2331 RHOB WI 03 D Ron Kind 1713 LHOB WI 04 D Gerald D. Kleczka 2301 RHOB WI 05 D Thomas M. Barrett 1224 LHOB WI 06 R Thomas E. Petri 2262 RHOB WI 07 D David R. Obey 2462 RHOB WI 08 D Jay Johnson 1313 LHOB WI 09 R F. James Sensenbrenner 2332 RHOB WV 01 D Alan B. Mollohan 2346 RHOB WV 02 D Bob Wise 2367 RHOB WV 03 D Nick J. Rahall, II 2307 RHOB WY AL R Barbara Cubin 1114 LHOB

Building Codes CHOB Cannon House Office Building LHOB Longworth House Office Building RHOB Rayburn House Office Building

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ALAAmerican LibraryAssociation Effective Ways to Communicate With Legislators

Personal Visits

Face-to-face discussion 1s the most effective means of communication, and is essential to the establishment of a solid working relationship. A meeting is more Five Basic Rules for easily arranged early in a session, before pressures build up. Effective Communication Constituents are always welcome in Washington. All legislators also have one or more local district offices that they visit 1. Be Brief. A legislator's time is limited. periodically during congressional recesses So is yours. and between sessions. Visits there will often be more convenient for you than Washington 2. Be Appreciative. Acknowledge past visits. Regardless of where you visit your support, and convey thanks for current legislator, be sure you have a firm appointment. Use the district office to make action. local or capital appointments. Get to know district staff members. Close working 3. Be Specific. Refer to local library and relationships with staff will benefit you in district needs. many ways. Take along others-library director, trustee, Friend, representative of a 4. Be Informative. Give reasons why a community organization, citizen, student measure should be supported. activist and/or academic-library supporter. Keep the delegation small enough for an easy 5. Be Courteous. Be positive and polite. exchange of viewpoints with the legislator. Ask for a specific action or support. Do ::.. Leave your card and any written information you may have prepared. Follow up with a not demand or threaten. letter of appreciation for the time given to you, and include any additional information suggested by the visit.

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Telephone Calls

Once you have made the acquaintance of your representative, telephone calls are appropriate and easy. Make them sparingly to the legislator, whose time is heavily occupied. Regular contact with staff is possible and often effective. Telephone to ask support before a hearing or a floor vote; to ask for help with legislative colleagues; to convey urgent local concern. Judge how far to pursue by the reaction. Remember that it is more difficult for a legislator to temporize in a conversation than by letter.

Letters, Letters, Letters

These are the chief fuel which powers any legislative vehicle. They are read. They elicit responses. They represent votes. Each letter-writer is deemed to represent several like-minded if less highly motivated constituents. Letters may be formal or informal, typewritten or handwritten. You should compose them giving your reason for a position and giving the legislator reasons for a position and giving the legislator the reasons to support that position. If you are asking support for a particular bill, cite it by number and author, and give its title or subject matter.

E-Mail, Fax, Telegrams, Mai/grams

These are the fast, easy ways to communicate with legislators when the need for action is critical just prior to a committee or floor vote. The same general rules for regular correspondence apply. Explore how your congressional offices react to newer means of communicating, such as fax or e-mail. Some offices embrace these new technologies more readily than others.

E-Mail

Follow closely the general good form for letter writing. Some congressional offices will only respond to e-mail via the postal service. Be sure to provide your mailing address in the e-mail message. Other offices are inaccessible via e-mail. Check these URL's for up-to-date e-mail addresses.

• http://www.senate.gov/senator/membmail.html • http://www.house.gov/Whoswho.html

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ALAAmerican LibraryAssociation How to Write a Letter to Your Legislator

The most frequently used, Tips For Success: correct forms for address are: To your Senator: 1. Your legislators like to hear from home and want The Honorable _____(full name) to be kept informed of conditions in the district. United States Senate Base your letter on your own pertinent Washington, DC 20510 experiences and observations.

To your Representative: 2. If writing about a specific bill, describe it by The Honorable _____(full name) number or by its popular name. Legislators have thousands of bills before them in the course ofa U.S. House of Representatives year, and cannot always take time to figure out to Washington, DC 20515 which one you are referring.

Other Information: 3. Legislators appreciate intelligent, well-thought­ "Sincerely yours" is appropriate as a out letters which present a definite position, even complimentary close. Sign your full name. if they do not agree. Forms similar to the above, addressed to your state capital, are appropriate for your state 4. Even more important and valuable to them is a concrete statement of the reasons for your representatives and senators. position-particularly if you are writing about a Where possible, use your official letterhead. field in which you have specialized knowledge. If you are writing as an individual, use plain Representatives have to vote on many matters white bond paper, and give your official title with which they have had little or no firsthand following your signature to identify yourself experience. Some of the most valuable and to indicate your competency to address the information they receive comes from facts subject. presented in letters from people who have knowledge in the field. E-Mail 5. Short letters are almost always best. Members of Closely follow the general good form for Congress receive many, many letters each day, regular letter writing. Many offices respond and a lengthy one may not get as prompt a only by written correspondence through "snail reading as a brief statement. mail," so be sure to include your regular post address when using this form of 6. Letters should be timed to arrive while the issue communicating if you expect a response. Some is alive. Members of the committee considering offices may be inaccessible by e-mail. To the bill will appreciate having your views while check e-mail addresses, visit these Websites. the bill is ripe for study and action.

• http://www.house.gov/Whoswho.html 7. Follow through with a thank-you letter, whenever • http://www.senate.gov/senator/mem bmail.html possible. Mark your calendars for the 24th annual

National Library Legislative D~y May 4-5, 1998* Washington, D.C.

*Monday, May 4 will be Issue Briefings Day Tuesday, May 5 will be National Library Legislative Day

Visit http://www.ala.org/washoff/legday.html for more information or call the ALA Washington Office at 800/941-8478.

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National Library Legislative Day May 6, 1997

PRINCIPLE ISSUES

The American Library Association's 58,000 members, on behalf of the millions of Americans they serve, urge the 105th Congress to:

LIBRARY FUNDING

• Fund the Library Services & Technology Act (LSTA) at $150 million for FY98;

• Support library services to children and youth by maximizing funding and program participation eligibility under Elementary & Secondary Act (ESEA) Title VI, the America Reads Challenge and other initiatives;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

• Support only those proposals for domestic and international intellectual property protection in cyberspace which are adequately balanced to assure library users, students, educators, entrepreneurs, researchers and industrial innovators the access to information that has served the nation so well in the non-digital environment;

• Fund the Federal Depository Library Program for FY98 at the nearly $30.5 million requested by the Government Printing Office, and work with librarians to strengthen this critical program;

TECHNOLOGY IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST

• Maximize the public benefits of new information technology by: (i) reauthorizing and funding the Higher Education Act (HEA)- including expanded student aid, (ii) supporting Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiatives by authorizing $100 million in FY98 for such initiatives, and (iii) affirming the centrality of digital library projects to the missions of core federal agencies;

• Support Federal Communications Commission's implementation of meaningful discounted telecommunications and information services rates for libraries and schools in time for the 1997-98 school year. ALA Washington Office 202/628-8410 http://www.ala.org/washoff/background.htm I

National Library Legislative Day May 6, 1997

BACKGROUND ON PRINCIPLE ISSUES

The American Library Association's 58,000 members, on behalf ofthe millions ofAmericans they serve, encourage Congress and their staffs to contact the ALA Washington Office for more iriformation on the following issues critical to constituents across the nation:

LIBRARY SERVICES AND TECHNOLOGY ACT (LSTA)-The cornerstone of federal funding for libraries has been renewed, simplified, and focused on technology and outreach. Thanks to the I 04th Congress, LSTA is authorized at $150 million; most funding goes to libraries through states; 4% is reserved for national leadership purposes. For FY 98 the Clinton Administration has requested $136.4 million, the same level as in FY 97 for predecessor programs.

ALA urges Congress to fund LSTA at $150 million to connect more libraries to the Internet and better support literacy, education, and help libraries provide jobs information, consumer health information, serve small business, information for lifelong learning, etc.

LIBRARY SERVICES TO CHILDREN AND YOUTH - President Clinton's emphasis on children and education is most welcome. Public library services to children provide a powerful boost to family literacy efforts and stimulate reading from the earliest years. The President's budget, however, does not fund Title VI of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). According to the Department of Education 40 percent of this block grant, funded in FY '97 at $310 million, is spent on school library and other instructional materials. In addition, school library media centers need books and other materials to support the new America Reads Challenge initiative, as well as new technology resources to help students become information literate.

ALA asks that Congress: (i) fund ESEA Title VI for FY '98 at its current level of $310 million as well as other education, literacy and library technology programs; (ii) ensure that the new America Reads Challenge initiative involves school and public libraries to help young children become effective readers; and (iii) make libraries eligible for partnership and for funding in youth, crime prevention, community development and other programs.

COPYRIGHT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ISSUES - ALA strongly supports the legal protection of authors' and inventors' intellectual property. ALA and its members, however, are also committed to preserving - and extending into cyberspace - the balance between proprietors' rights and the public's access to information long at the core of United States copyright law and recently embraced by the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva. Debate as to how best to achieve such balance began in earnest in the I 04th Congress and will be at the core of many legislative debates in the current Congress. ALA Washington Office 202/628-8410 http://www.ala.org/washoff/background. htm I

ALA asks that Congress recognize generally of the need to balance protection and access in intellectual property law and, specifically, to: (i) support proposed changes to the library/archive exception of the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1997 (S. 505 / H.R. 604); (ii) defer Senate ratification of the World Intellectual Property Organization treaties negotiated in December 1996 until a broad and balanced package of related copyright legislation can be crafted in both chambers of Congress; (iii) resist added protection outside copyright for non-original databases unless and until important threshold questions are asked and answered; (iv) reject all requests for Congressional recognition of draft "guidelines" circulated among participants in the Conference on Fair Use.

PUBLIC ACCESS TO GOVERNMENT INFORMATION - Libraries in nearly every congressional district are partners with Congress in making sure their constituents have no-fee, public access to government information in print and electronic formats through the Federal Depository Library Program administered by the Government Printing Office. Legislative Branch appropriations make this possible. The Joint Committee on Printing is working on a proposal to amend Title 44 US Code governing the distribution of information through depository libraries.

ALA asks that Congress work with librarians, the specialists in how the public uses government information, to strengthen and improve the Federal Depository Library Program, and that this critical program be funded in FY 98 at the full $30.477 million requested by the Government Printing Office.

HIGHER EDUCATION ACT, NEXT GENERATION INTERNET, DIGITAL LIBRARIES - Speedy reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA) and strong funding for academic programs are critical for student success. The ability of academic libraries to support higher education and research is linked to vigorous programs of federal student aid and federal support of research.

ALA urges Congress to support: (i) reauthorization and funding of HEA, including expanded student aid; (ii) support practical and operational digital library projects as appropriate to the missions of the various federal agencies; and (iii) support Next Generation Internet initiatives to move the national information infrastructure into the 21st century and the President's related budget proposal of $100 million in FY 98.

DISCOUNTED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RA TES/UNIVERSAL SERVICE - Only about 20% of households have a computer that can access the Internet, yet over 75% of the jobs in the next century will require computing and information networking skills. While 44% of public libraries are connected to the Internet, only 25% can provide World Wide Web access for the public. The main barrier for most libraries, especially in remote areas, is the high cost of long distance and other communications charges A mandate to provide discounted telecommunications rates for libraries and K-12 schools is part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 under universal service provisions. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) must complete a rulernaking on universal service by May 8, 1997. The FCC's decisions on library/ school discounts for interstate telecommunications services will be based on recommendations made by a Federal-State Joint Board which called for discounts ranging from 20-90%, with deeper discounts in high- cost and low-income areas. The Joint Board recommendations also call for discounts to be applied to all telecommunications services in time for the coming school year. . Public and school libraries are counting on these discounts to provide public access to the information superhighway.

ALA urges Congress to support the FCC's implementation of meaningful discounted rates for libraries and schools in time for the 1997-98 school year. American Library Association Washington Office http://www.ala.org/washoff/lsta.htm I

ALA Washington Office

Federal Library Funding - Action Needed

Get Connected! Library Services and Technology Act Library Legislative Day May 6, 1997 Message to Congress:

Fund LSTA at $150 million. This funding will connect more libraries to the Internet, better support literacy and education, and help libraries American Library Association Washington Office provide information about jobs and consumer health, while assisting 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., NW small businesses, students and lifelong learners. Suite 403 Washington, DC 20004 Background: 202/628-8410 phone 800/941-8478 toll-free The cornerstone of federal funding for libraries has been renewed, 202/628-8419 fax simplified, and focused on technology and outreach. Thanks to the 104th Congress, LST A is authorized at $150 million.

Most funding goes to libraries through state library agencies; 4% is reserved for national leadership purposes of library education and training, research and demonstrations, preservation and digitization, and model joint library/museum projects; and 1.5% for Indian tribal library services. For FY98 the Clinton Administration has requested $136.4 million, the same level as in FY97 for predecessor programs.

The soon-to-be-implemented library/school discounts for telecommunications rates will encourage many more libraries to plan for high level connections to the Internet. However, ongoing connection costs for communications are only one part of the investment libraries must make to provide meaningful access to electronic information resources for the public. The other "three Cs" - computers, content and competencies - are substantial investments for libraries. The federal stimulus and leverage provided by LSTA have never been more urgently needed.

New research shows that reading to children stimulates early brain development, and highlights what librarians have long promoted: an early appreciation of the joy ofreading. Such early and basic literacy is a key building block for effective learning and for technological literacy. LSTA provides some of the only innovation funds for libraries to explore new and more effective ways of serving children and youth, such as taking children's library services to where the children are - in day care, Head Start, and other care giving programs.

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ESEA Title VI, Innovative Education Program Strategies Message to Congress:

Fund ESEA VI at feast at the FY97 level of $310 million. Although the President recommended no funding, this flexible program allows every school district to invest in key learning tools such as school library books and other materials. Background:

ESEA VI (the former Chapter 2 school block grant) includes school library materials as an eligible use of funds. Some 40 percent of these funds are used for this purpose and are desperately needed in order to have sufficient amounts of up-to-date materials. Such library resources support the improvement of reading skills and provide reference and research materials keyed to the curriculum to enhance the critical thinking skills of students when and where they are engaged in learning during the school day. Status of Congressional Appropriations

House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education have been holding hearings. "Markup" sessions, where subcommittee members decide how much funding to recommend for each program, may be held as early as May or could be delayed until later in the session. Other Programs of Interest

Message to Congress:

A variety ofother programs assist libraries and should be funded at adequate levels:

Federal leadership/services such as the Library of Congress and other national libraries (Agriculture, Education, Medicine), the Federal Depository Library Program administered by GPO and the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science.

Elementary and secondary and higher education programs which aid institutions of which libraries are a part (such as ESEA andHEA).

Assistance for specific types ofprojects such as the National Endowment for the Humanities, the NTIA Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program, or multi-agency initiatives such as digital library projects through National Science Foundation and other agencies.

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ALA Washington Office Presidential Initiatives for FY98

President Clinton has proposed several new programs in education and technology of interest to libraries. All of these initiatives are programs which would require new legislation, new funding, or both. Congressional reaction has been a mixture of interest and skepticism. If enacted or funded, all are likely to undergo considerable change from the initial proposals outlined below. Get Connected! Library Legislative Day May 6, 1997 America Reads Challenge On April 28 the Department of Education's Carol Rasco, Director of the America Reads Challenge, held a briefing and distributed the draft legislation for the America Reads Challenge. The legislation has been American Library Association introduced in the Senate as S. 664 by Senators Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Washington Office Patty Murray (D-WA); Barbara Mikulski (D-MD); Carl Levin (D-MI), 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Suite 403 Max Cleland (D-GA), Daniel Inouye (D-HI), John Glenn (D-OH), Chris Washington, DC 20004 Dodd (D-CT), Paul Wellstone (D-MN), (D-MA), (D-MD), Thomas Daschle (D-SD), and Jack Reed (D-RI). It is 202/628-8410 phone expected that a companion bill will be introduced in the House. 800/941-84 78 toll-free 202/628-8419 fax • Purpose The purpose is "to help all children read well and independently by the end of the third grade so that they can succeed in school, later in the workplace, and in life." This 5-year $2.7 billion initiative would include FY98 authorizations of $260 million for the Department of Education and $200 million for the Corporation for National and Community Service to be used for effective local reading programs for preschool-aged children and children attending both public and private schools. • How America Reads Challenge Would Work Grants would be made to States (70 percent of the funds available) by the Department of Education and the Chief Executive Office of the Corporation for National and Community Service in accordance with the relative amounts states receive under Part A of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The remainder of the funds would be distributed based on the quality of the state application and the extent to which the state has mobilized a broad base of local and statewide organizations to help many more children read well and independently.·

The proposal states that each state educational agency and the State Commission on National and Community Service would jointly prepare an application describing the state's plan and outlining collaboration with the business sector and with other public and private agencies, such as school districts, elementary schools, libraries, literacy organizations, reading associations, institutions of higher education, senior citizens groups, arts and cultural groups, religious and other community groups, and programs funded under the national service laws.

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States would make competitive subgrants to local reading programs where eligible applicants would be a consortium of a local educational agency ( or one or more schools of such an agency) and at least one other public or private agency or organization (such as a library, museum, or other cultural institution, community-based organization, business or other employer, senior citizens group, youth group, parent association, civic group, literacy organization. or institution of higher education) or Indian tribe. Local ,, ·plicants must use the funds for local reading programs, such as tb ~ cost of reading specialists, materials, training of tutors, and fan1ily literacy activities. • Parents as First Teachers Program With $50 million of Education Department funding and 25 percent of National Service funding, competitive grants would be made to develop or expand large-scale local reading programs that could serve as effective models; national or regional information networks; reading programs conducted by national organizations in more than one state; or other relevant activities.

At least 10 percent of this part of the legislation is to be used to support information networks or other programs "that provide appropriate support, training, and educational materials to involve and assist parents (and other adult primary care givers) to help their children become successful readers by the end of the third grade." This is the Parents as First Teachers Program. Applicants may be national organizations; multi state consortia, or local subgrant applicants that have the capacity to conduct programs of sufficient size to serve as national models.

Up to 5 percent of funding could be used by the Department of Education and the Corporation for National and Community Service for technical assistance, dissemination of materials and information about best practices, other supportive activities, and for evaluation of the program. • Related Program Increases Requested In related programs, the Administration has requested $7 .5 billion for FY98 for the ESEA Title 1 For disadvantaged schoolchildren; $108 million for the Even Start family literacy program; and $50 million for ESEA Title X, Part 1, After School Leaming Centers, for rural and inner-city schools to stay open after hours and serve as neighborhood learning centers. School Construction Initiative This initiative would provide government financing for up to half the interest on school construction bonds or similar financing mechanisms, with a target of stimulating at least $20 billion in new construction or renovation. Projects could include emergency repairs to ensure health and safety; technology upgrades; building new schools to serve growing enrollments; ensuring access for disabled individuals; and improving energy efficiency. Legislation titled "Partnership to Rebuild America's Schools Act of 1997," has been introduced in the Senate by Senator Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL), S. 456 and in the House by Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) H.R. 1104.

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Higher Education Initiatives

The Administration's budget for FY98 proposes a combination of budget and tax initiatives to expand college access for lower-income students while providing new assistance to working families and middle-class families. The budget request would increase the maximum Pell Grant award to a high of $3,000, and modify the need-analysis formula for certain independent students. This could make over 200,000 additional independent students eligible for Pell grants.

The President's budget proposes a $27 million increase for college work-study jobs, with 50 percent of these being proposed for tutors in the America Reads Challenge. The budget includes a Hope Scholarship proposal to give a tax credit ofup to $1,500 for two years of postsecondary education, and a middle-income tax deduction. Technology Initiatives

The Administration would nearly double funding for Educational Technology to $500 million to "help meet the President's goal oflinking every school to the Information Superhighway by the year 2000. It would especially help to link rural and inner-city schools to a wide world of learning." First funded in FY97, these dollars are allocated to state education agencies which make competitive grants to schools. The Technology Innovation Challenge grants first funded in FY95, would expand from $57 million in FY97 to $75 million. Some 43 awards have been made to local partnerships of schools, business and industry. Next Generation Internet (NGI) Program

The President's budget proposes $100 million for each of the next three years to support an inter-agency initiative, the Next Generation Internet, which seeks to develop a research network that can reach speeds 100 to 1,000 times faster than the Internet and greatly improve the quality of service. This proposal is part of an overall request for $1.1 billion, 10 percent more than in 1997, for research and development in computers and communications technologies under the Administration's High Performance Computing and Communications initiative.

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LIBRARIANS SUPPORT BALANCED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND POLICY FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW

The American Library Association's 58,000 members, on behalf of the millions of Americans they serve, strongly support the legal protection of authors' and inventors' intellectual property. ALA, however, is also committed to preserving- and extending into cyberspace - the balance between proprietors' rights and the public's access to information long at the core of United States copyright law and recently em~raced by the World Intellectua}. .Property Organization in Geneva. To that end, the nation's libratians urge the 105th Congress to:

• Amend the Copyt:'i~~t Term Extensi~! Act of 1997 (S ..~Qi / H.R. 60~~ to assure that its libt;flry and ar~hives exception af{ords the public ~~ijU.ingful access to commercid:lly unetploited published works that already ,~ve.lbeen protected by cdpy1;ight for the life Qf the author plus SO years; • Defer Senate ratiticatiQn of the World Intellectual Property Organization treaties negotiated in December 1996 until a broad and balanced package of related copy­ right legislation can be crafted in both chambers of Congress - legislation which assures that Americans in all parts of the private and public sectors, especially the nation's library users and schoolchildren, will share equitably in the digital future; • Resist added protection outside copyright for non-original databases unless and until: (i) proponents of such "sui generis" protection document the significant actual harm it seeks to address; and (ii) the impact of many reasonable models of protection are thoroughly evaluated by Congress and other appropriate bodies; and (iii) any bill introduced is amended to preserve full access to government, scientific, cultural and other information in the public domain not now protected by copyright; • Reject all requests for Congressional recognition of draft "guidelines" circulated among participants in the Conference on Fair Use. Because both information tech­ nology, usage and legislative policy all are in substantial flux, none of these contro­ versial proposals enjoys the broad support among all interested stakeholders that has been a prerequisite to Congress' imprimatur in the past. May 6, 1997 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SELECTED INTERNET RESOURCES

SOURCE SITE ADDRESS (http:// . .. )

Legislative Branch THOMAS - Library of Congress thomas.loc.gov Senate Judiciary Committee www.senate.gov/committee/judiciary.html House Judiciary Committee www.house.gov/judiciary U.S. Copyright Office lcweb.loc.gov/copyright U.S. Patent & Trademark Office www.uspto.gov

Executive Branch Information Infrastructure Task Force iitf.doc.gov

Library Organizations American Library Association www.ala.org Association of Research Libraries arl.cni.org

Coalitions Ad Hoc Copyright Coalition www .ahccoalition.org Creative Incentive Coalition www.c1c.org Digital Future Coalition www.ari.net/dfc

www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla International Organizations Intl. Federation of Library Associations W odd Intellectual Property Organization www.wipo.org

ksgwww .harvard.edu/iip/acicip.html Other Sites National Humanities Alliance www-ninch. cni. org/issues/ copyright/principles/ nha_ complete.html Stanford University fairuse. stanford. edu University of utsystem.edu/ns-search/ogc/intellectualproperty/ cprtindx-htm

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National Library Legislative Day May 6, 1997 BACKGROUND ON PRIMARY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ISSUES

COPYRIGHT TERM EXTENSION ACT- This legislation, which would lengthen the basic term of copyright protection from the life of the author plus 50 years to "life plus 70 years," originally was expected to move quickly through the last Congress. Together with other major national library groups, ALA pushed strongly for changes to the bill that would permit libraries and archives to use published copyrighted works during the new 20 year extension period in ways not necessarily to be protected by Fair Use or other parts of the Copyright Act, provided that such works were not being commercially exploited. This legislation has been re-introduced in this Congress by Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-CA) as H.R. 604 and in the Senate as S. 505 by Sen. (R-UT). Unlike last year's proposals, the new bills include an exception for libraries and archives. ALA, together with 5 other library and archive organizations, have formally proposed changes to this year's bills. These modifications are designed to assure that this exception is clearly broad enough to permit meaningful library and archive use of non-commercialized published works during the last 20 years of extended copyright protection proposed.

ALA urges Congress to support its proposed changes to the library/archives exception now contained in H.R. 604 and S. 505.

WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION TREATIES­ Throughout 1995 and early 1996, the Clinton Administration pressed aggressively for international considera­ tion by the United Nations' World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) of proposals to update copyright law to reflect and govern digital network technology. Similar proposals, defended and delineated in the Administration's September 1995 "White Paper," were simultaneously introduced in the 104th Congress. These bills proved extremely controversial and were not voted upon in either chamber of the last Congress at any level of the legislative process. When WIPO convened a Diplomatic Conference in Genev<1;, Switzerland in December 1996, it became clear that the United States' "Digital Agenda" also lacked international consensus for the same substantive reasons that comparable legislation did not appreciably advance in Congress.

Ultimately, much-modified versions of two copyright treaties were adopted. (A third treaty designed to provide broad new legal protection for "databases" beyond that already afforded by copyright law was unpopular with WIPO delegations and not taken up for discussion.) Once presented to Congress by the Administration in 1997, the WIPO treaties will be referred to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Judiciary (and potentially Commerce) Committees of both houses are then likely to consider related copyright legislation of their own and the Administration's design. Because the WIPO copyright treaties are general in nature, their full impact upon the public and private sectors in the United States cannot be gauged unless and until a balanced package of related copyright legislation that enjoys broad support is crafted in both chambers of Congress.

ALA strongly urges Congress to defer Senate ratification of the World Intellectual Property Organization treaties until such legislation is introduced, refined and broadly supported by stakeholders in both the public and private sectors. ALA Washington Office 202/628-8410 http://www.ala.org/washoff/ipinfo.htm I

"SUI GENERIS" DATABASE PROTECTION - Consistent with the Supreme Court's 1991 ruling in the Feist case, databases which possesses a minimal amount of originality enjoy full copyright protection. (Thus, mere compilations of facts like telephone white pages do not qualify for such protection; yellow pages do.) This ruling comports with long legal tradition that facts are free and may not be privatized even though they may have been assembled at some effort and expense. Late in the 104th Congress, legislation was introduced in the House alone which, if adopted, would have ignored the Supreme Court's analysis in Feist and provided sweeping new protection ( outside and in addition to copyright) to collections of facts without the minimal originality needed to merit copyright protection. Such "sui generis" database protection proposed would have permitted the privatization of facts - such as scientific data, research findings, and government information- now in the public domain. Moreover, the legal regime proposed contained none of the provisions in American copyright law, such as Fair Use, intended to balance the rights of information proprietors with the public and private sectors' requirement for reasonable access to copyrighted information.

Within 24 hours of this legislation's introduction, the Administration presented the World Intellectual Property Organization (see above) with a formal treaty proposal intended to afford comparably broad and unbalanced protection to databases, very broadly defined. In the face of overwhelming criticism of these domestic and international "sui generis" database protection proposals (by library, educational, scientific and corporate database company representatives in the United States and abroad), neither the database legislation nor treaty proposal received active attention by the 104th Congress or the delegates to WIPO' s December 1996 Diplomatic Conference. ALA believes that the proponents of sui generis database protection bear a heavy burden to prove that, on balance, such a radical departure from (and overlay upon) established copyright principles will benefit the public and the economy.

ALA urges Congress to resist added protection outside copyright for non-original databases unless and until: (i) proponents of such "sui generis" protection document the significant actual harm it seeks to address; and (ii) the impact of many reasonable models of protection are thoroughly evaluated by Congress and other appropriate bodies; and (iii) any bill introduced is amended, as necessary, to preserve full access to government, scientific, cultural and other information in the public domain not now protected by copyright.

FAIR USE "GUIDELINES" - The Conference on Fair Use (CONFU) was convened under the auspices of the Patent & Trademark Office in 1995 to bring users and producers of copyrighted works together in an effort to negotiate guidelines for the Fair Use of such works in an electronic environment in a variety of educational and library settings. After nearly two years of talks, CONFU will cease meeting in May of 1997. To date, CONFU participants have been unable to achieve the kind of broad and deep consensus on draft Guidelines for any aspect of library or educational activity which, in the past, has been the basis for Congressional endorsement of such an accord. ALA has concluded that it is premature to endorse negotiated fair use Guidelines at this time - or to ask Congress to do so - given the degree to which both technology and public policy in this vital area are and will remain in flux. ALA's position also applies to proposals concerning the creation of multimedia works by educators and students negotiated outside the CONFU process through the Consortium of College & University Media Centers.

ALA urges Congress not to endorse, or otherwise provide its imprimatur to, any draft CONFU or multimedia guideline proposals. ,30 1 Penn:.;v1van1a .C\·1enue . NW ".' eieonone 202 62'3 84' C' Washington Office Suite 403 cax 202 628 8419 v'Vash1ngton. DC 20004-170' !:: ma11:alawash /L a :awash.org US A http:; 1w ww.ala.org1alawast1i ngton.html

ALAAmerican LibraryAssociation April 25, 1997

Hon. Elton Gallegly United States House of Representatives 2427 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Representative Gallegly:

On behalf of America's major library and archive associations, together representing over 80,000 institutions and individuals nationwide, we want to thank you for including an exception for libraries and archives in this year's version of the "Copyright Term Extension Act" (H.R. 604). That provision, Section 3 of the bill, is intended to afford the public access to works without commercial value during the proposed 20 year extension of the copyright term. Our organizations remain deeply concerned, however, that the present wording of Section 3 will not accomplish this important goal as you and other sponsors of this legislation intend.

As we have detailed for your counsel, we believe that H.R. 604 must be "fme tuned" to assure that students, scholars, educators, and library and archive users will have meaningful access to copyrighted works without commercial value during the 20 year extended term of protection proposed. To that end, we have attached a version of Section 3 of the legislation redacted to show the changes minimally necessary to provide the public with some direct benefit from the proposed term extension. Such balance is an essential prerequisite to providing copyright proprietors with the substantial windfall that a 20 year extension of the current copyright term for both newly created and all presently copyrighted works represents.

We look forward to working with you and your staff, Chairman Coble, other interested Members, and representatives of copyright proprietors to appropriately amend H.R. 604 in the Intellectual Property Subcommittee. Thank you again for your further consideration of the public interest in this important matter.

Sincerely,

Robert Oakley Carol C. Henderson Washington Affairs Representative Executive Director - Washington Office American Association of LawLibraries American Library Association I Hon. Elton Gallegly April 25, 1997 Page Two

Duane Webster Carla Funk Executive Director Executive Director Association of Research Libraries Medical Library Association

SusanE. Fox David Bender Executive Director Executive Director Society of American Archivists Special Libraries Association

Attachment cc: Hon. Herny Hyde Hon. John Conyers Hon. Howard Coble Hon. Barney Frank Members, Committee on the Judiciary PROPOSED LIBRARY AND ARCHIVE ASSOCIATION MODIFICATIONS TO SECTION 3 OF:

COPYRIGHT TERM EXTENSION ACT OF 1997 HR604 105th CONGRESS 1st Session To amend title 17, United States Code, with respect to the duration of copyright, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Februaiy 5, 1997

Mr. GALLEGLY (for himself, Mr. COBLE, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. MCCOLLUM, Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. GOODLA TIE, Mr. CLEMENT, Mr. GEKAS, Mr. UNDERWOOD, and Mr. OWENS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciaiy

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SEC. 3. REPRODUCTION BY LIBRARIES AND ARCIDVES.

Section 108 of title 17, United States Code, is amended--.

(1) by redesignating subsection (h) as subsection (I); and

(2) by inserting after subsection (g) the following:

'(h) For purposes of this section, during the last 20 years of any term of copyright of a published work, a libraiy or archives, including a nonprofit educational institution that functions as such, may reproduce, distribute, display, or perform in facsimile or digital form a copy or phonorecord of such work, or portions thereof, for purposes of preservation, private study, scholarship, or research, unless [if] such libraiy or archives has first determined, on the basis of a reasonable investigation, that [none] all of the conditions set forth in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) apply. No reproduction, distribution, display, or performance is authorized under this subsection if --

, ( 1) the work is subject to normal commercial exploitation;

'(2) a copy or phonorecord of the work can be obtained at a reasonable price; and

'(3) the copyright owner or its agent has provided [provides] notice pursuant to regulations promulgated by the Register of Copyrights that [either] both of the conditions set forth in paragraphs (1) and (2) apply.

The exemption provided in this subsection does not apply to any subsequent uses by users other than such libraiy or archives.'. April 25, 1997 American Library Association Washington Office http://www.ala.org/washoff/govinfo.htm I

ALA Washington Office Public Access to Government Information • I ·---· __ .. __ .... ,.u...... Z ;Ji T .• ; ·· "!-- t'?! '· 1 T ~!!. Message to Congress

Get Connected! • Work with librarians-the specialists in how the Library Legislative Day public uses government information-to strengthen May 6, 1997 and improve the Federal Depository Library Program. • Fund the Federal Depository Library Program. American Library Association Washington Office Of the Government Printing Office FY98 request of nearly $30.5 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., NW million for the Superintendent of Documents Salaries and Suite 403 Expenses Appropriation, $25.8 million of this sum will support Washington, DC 20004 the FDLP. Libraries spend much more on their half of the bargain to assist your constituents in making effective use of congressional 202/628-8410 phone 800/941-8478 toll-free information, census data, health and safety information, and much 202/628-8419 fax more. Background The public's right of access to government information is a cornerstone of our democratic society. Libraries in nearly every congressional district are partners with Congress in making sure their constituents have no-fee, public access to government information in print and electronic formats through the Federal Depository Library Program administered by the Government Printing Office. Legislative Branch appropriations make this possible.

Expert service to your constituents is provided daily in the almost 1,400 depository libraries throughout the nation. These libraries invest funds for staff, space and equipment to provide the public with ready, efficient and no-fee access to government information. Libraries are equally committed to providing access to the broad and growing array of electronic products and services-all of which require a further investment in equipment, additional and highly trained technical staff, and greater service requirements to assist library users.

Congress and the Executive Branch have indicated that increasing amounts of government information will be made available electronically. Printing costs are likely to shift to the depositories which will be expected to access, download, and print documents for users who need them. Today printing costs are borne up-front by GPO--through appropriated funds-before the information is distributed from a centralized, coordinated government information program that has provided public access to government information for more than a century. Already financially strapped libraries cannot necessarily assume the costs of printing millions of pages of government information.

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Why do we need the Federal Depository Library Program if government information will be available electronically? While it is true that providing government information in electronic formats makes many items more widely available, the Federal Depository Library Program is more necessary than ever for several reasons:

• many government publications are still being issued in paper and/or are more easily used in that format;

• much of the citizenry does not have the hardware or high speed connections to access government databases and electronic publications in their home or business;

• many publications being issued in electronic formats are not available on-line, but in CD-ROM or other static formats;

• many government databases require specialized software that may not be available to many potential users;

• many information needs will rely on a combination of paper and electronic sources;

• Federal Depository Libraries add value to government information that saves time for Federal employees; and

• libraries in the electronic age provide expertise in helping citizens access the exact information that they require from government data.

Congress is considering various options to revise the law governing government printing, information dissemination and depository libraries. Library associations to propose legislation ALA has organized an inter-association working group that will develop a legislative proposal for amending the law, Title 44 of the United States Code, or at least that part of it that deals with depository libraries and government information dissemination. The group has drafted the following goals:

1. The law must broaden and enhance public access to all forms of government information.

2. The law must resolve the constitutional or inter-branch issues regarding the oversight and administration of information creation, acquistion, production, bibliographic control, dissemination and permanent public access in order to establish clear accountability and facilitate public access to government information from all three branches.

3. The law must strengthed the role of the Superintendent of Documents and the Federal Depository Program in providing public access to government information.

2 of2 5/1 /97 10:27 AM House Appropriations Committee listed in state order

State Dist. Party Representative State Dist. Party Representative AL 01 R Sonny Callahan MS 01 R Roger F. Wicker AL 04 R Robert Aderholt MS 04 R Mike Parker AR 04 R Jay Dickey NC 04 D David E. Price AZ 02 D Ed Pastor NC 08 D W. G. "Bill" Hefner AZ 05 R Jim Kolbe NC 11 R Charles H. Taylor CA 03 D Vic Fazio NJ 11 R Rodney P. Frelinghuysen CA 08 D Nancy Pelosi NM 02 R Joe Skeen CA 32 D Julian C. Dixon NY 01 R Michael P. Forbes CA 34 D Esteban E. Torres NY 16 D Jose' E. Serrano CA 40 R Jerry Lewis NY 18 D Nita M. Lowey CA 48 R Ron Packard NY 25 R James T. Walsh CA 51 R Randy "Duke" Cunningham OH 07 R David L. Hobson co 02 D David E. Skaggs OH 09 D Marcy Kaptur CT 03 D Rosa L. DeLauro OH 11 D Louis Stokes FL 10 R C. W. "Bill" Young OH 16 R Ralph Regula FL 13 R Dan Miller OK 05 R Ernest J. Istook, Jr. FL 17 D Carrie P. Meek PA 01 D Thomas M. F oglietta GA 01 R Jack Kingston PA 10 R Joseph M. McDade IA 05 R Tom Latham PA 12 D John P. Murtha IL 09 D Sidney R. Yates TN 03 R Zach Wamp IL 10 R John Edward Porter TX 11 D Chet Edwards IN 01 D Peter J. Visclosky TX 22 R Tom DeLay KS 04 R Todd Tiahrt TX 23 R Henry Bonilla KY 03 R Anne M. Northup VA 08 D James P. Moran KY 05 R Harold Rogers VA 10 R Frank R. Wolf LA 01 R Bob Livingston, Chairman WA 05 R George Nethercutt MA 01 D John W. Olver WA 06 D Norm Dicks MD 05 D Steny H. Hoyer WI 01 R Mark W. Neumann MI 11 R Joe Knollenberg WI 07 D David R. Obey, Ranking Minority MN 05 D Martin Olav Sabo WV 01 D Alan B. Mollohan

Appropriations Committees recommend funding levels for all federal programs. The Interior Subcommittee has jurisdiction over funding/or the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities and museum programs. The Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee has jurisdiction over funding for library programs and education programs. The Legislative Branch Subcommittee has jurisdiction over funding for the Library of Congress and the Government Printing Office.

Please note subcommittee lists on reverse.

American Library Association Washington Office, Library Legislative Day, May 6, 1997 I Key House Appropriations Subcommittees listed in alphabetical order

Interior and Related Agencies

Dicks, Kolbe, McDade, Miller, Moran, Murtha, Nethercuttt, Regula (Chairman), Skaggs, Skeen, Taylor, Wamp, Yates (Ranking Minority)

Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies

Bonilla, DeLauro, Dickey, Hoyer, Istook, Lowey, Miller, Northup, Obey (Ranking Minority), Pelosi, Porter (Chairman), Stokes, Wicker, Young

Legislative Branch

Cunningham, Fazio, Kaptur, Latham, Serrano (Ranking Minority), Walsh (Chairman), Wamp, Young

American Library Association Washington Office, Library Legislative Day, May 6, 1997 Senate Appropriations Committee listed in state order

State Party Full Name State Party Senator AK R Ted Stevens, Chairman ND D Byron L. Dorgan AL R Richard C. Shelby NH R Judd Gregg AR D Dale L. Bumpers NJ D Frank R. Lautenberg CA D Barbara Boxer NM R Pete V. Domenici co R Ben Nighthorse Campbell NV D Harry M. Reid HI D Daniel K. Inouye PA R Arlen Specter IA D Tom Harkin SC D Ernest F. Hollings ID R Larry E. Craig TX R Kay Bailey Hutchison KY R Mitch McConnell UT R Robert F. Bennett MD D Barbara A. Mikulski VT D Patrick J. Leahy MO R Christopher S. Bond WA R Slade Gorton MS R Thad Cochran WA D Patty Murray MT R Conrad Bums WI D Herb Kohl NC R Lauch Faircloth WV D Robert C. Byrd, Ranking Minority

Key Subcommittees listed in alphabetical order

Interior

Bennett, Boxer, Bumpers, Bums, Byrd (Ranking Minority), Campbell, Cochran, Domenici, Dorgan, Gorton (Chairman), Gregg, Hollings, Leahy, Stevens

Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education

Bond, Bumpers, Cochran, Craig, Faircloth, Gorton, Gregg, Harkin (Ranking Minority), Hollings, Hutchison, Inouye, Kohl, Murray, Reid, Specter (Chairman)

Legislative Branch

Bennett (Chairman), Boxer, Craig, Dorgan (Ranking Minority), Stevens

Appropriations Committees recommend funding levels for all federal programs. The Interior Subcommittee has jurisdiction over fundingfor the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities and museum programs. The Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee has jurisdiction over funding for library programs and education programs. The Legislative Branch Subcommittee has jurisdiction over funding for the Library of Congress and the Government Printing Office.

American Library Association Washington Office, Library Legislative Day, May 6, 1997 I Senate Budget Committee listed in state order State Party Senator State Party Senator CA D Barbara Boxer NM R Pete V. Domenici, Chairman IA R Charles E. Grassley OK R Don Nickles IL D Richard J. Durbin OR D Ron Wyden MD D Paul S. Sarbanes OR R Gordon Smith ME R Olympia J. Snowe SC D Ernest F. Hollings MI R Spencer Abraham SD D Tim Johnson MN R Rod Grams TN R Bill Frist MO R Christopher S. Bond TX R Phil Gramm ND D Kent Conrad WA R Slade Gorton NH R Judd Gregg WA D Patty Murray NJ D Frank R. Lautenberg, Ranking Minority WI D Russell D. Feingold

House Budget Committee listed in state order State Dist. Party Representative State Dist. Party Representative AZ 04 R John Shadegg MS 04 R Mike Parker CA 02 R Wally Herger NC 01 D Eva M. Clayton CA 06 D Lynn Woolsey ND AL D Earl Pomeroy CA 19 R George P. Radanovich NH 01 R John E. Sununu CA 24 D Brad Sherman NH 02 R Charles F. Bass CA 33 D Lucille Roybal-Allard NJ 07 R Bob Franks CT 04 R Christopher Shays NY 13 R Susan Molinari FL 11 D James 0. Davis OH 07 R David L. Hobson FL 13 R Dan Miller OH 12 R John R. Kasich, Chairman HI 02 D Patsy T. Mink PA 16 R Joseph R. Pitts IL 12 D Jerry F. Costello RI 02 D Robert A. Weygand KY 04 R Jim Bunning SC 04 R Bob Inglis KY 06 D Scotty Baesler SC 05 D John M. Spratt, Jr., Ranking Minori MD 02 R Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr. TN 04 R Van Hilleary MD 03 D Benjamin L. Cardin TX 10 D Lloyd Doggett MI 02 R Peter Hoekstra TX 12 R Kay Granger MI 07 R Nick Smith TX 21 R Lamar Smith MI 13 D Lynn N. Rivers TX 25 D Ken Bentsen MN 01 R Gil Gutknecht WA 07 D Jim McDermott MN 02 D David Minge WI 01 R Mark W. Neumann MS 02 D Bennie G. Thompson WV 01 D Alan B. Mollohan

Budget Committees determine what size wedge ofthe entire budget pie will be given to large segments of programs such as all education programs or and all job training programs.

American Library Association Washington Office, Library Legislative Day, May 6, 1997 Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee listed in state order

State Party Senator State Party Senator AR R Y. Tim Hutchinson NH R Judd Gregg CT D Christopher J. Dodd NM D Jeff Bingaman IA D Tom Harkin OH R Mike DeWine IN R Dan Coats RI D Jack Reed KY R Mitch McConnell TN R Bill Frist MA D Edward M. Kennedy, Ranking Minority VA R John W. Warner MD D Barbara A. Mikulski VT R James M. Jeffords, Chairman ME R Susan M. Collins WA D Patty Murray MN D Paul D. W ellstone WY R Michael B. Enzi

House Education and Workforce Committee listed in state order

State Dist. Party Representative State Dist. Party Representative CA 01 R Frank Riggs NC 10 R Cass Ballenger CA 06 D Lynn Woolsey NE 03 R Bill Barrett CA 07 D George Miller NJ 01 D Robert E. Andrews CA 25 R Howard P. "Buck" McKean NJ 05 R Marge Roukema CA 31 D Matthew G. Martinez NJ 10 D Donald M. Payne CA 46 D Loretta Sanchez NY 04 D Carolyn McCarthy co 04 R Robert W. Schaffer NY 11 D Major R. Owens DE AL R Michael N. Castle OH 10 D Dennis J. Kucinich FL 01 R Joe Scarborough PA 02 D Chaka F attah GA 09 R Nathan Deal PA 05 R John E. Peterson GA 10 R Charles W. Norwood, Jr. PA 08 R James C. Greenwood HI 02 D Patsy T. Mink PA 19 R William F. Goodling, Chairman IL 13 R Harris W. Fawell PR 00 D Carlos A. Romero-Barcelo IN 02 R David M. McIntosh SC 03 R Lindsey O. Graham IN 03 D Tim Roemer TN 04 R Van Hilleary IN 04 R Mark E. Souder TN 09 D Harold E. Ford, Jr. MA 06 D John F. Tierney TX 03 R Sam Johnson MI 02 R Peter Hoekstra TX 14 R Ron Paul MI 06 R Fred Upton TX 15 D Ruben E. Hinojosa MI 09 D Dale E. Kildee VA 03 D Robert C. Scott MI 11 R Joe Knollenberg WI 03 D Ron Kind MO 01 D William L. Clay, Ranking Minority WI 06 R Thomas E. Petri MO 02 R James M. Talent

The House Education and Workforce Committee and the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee jurisdictions include authorization ofeducation, youth, library, museum, arts and humanities programs.

American Library Association Washington Office, Library Legislative Day, May 6, 1997 Senate Commerce Committee listed in state order State Party Senator State Party Senator AK R Ted Stevens MS R Trent Lott AZ R John McCain, Chairman MT R Conrad Bums HI D Daniel K. Inouye ND D Byron L. Dorgan KS R Sam Brownback NV D Richard H. Bryan KY D Wendell H. Ford OR D Ron Wyden LA D John B. Breaux SC D Ernest F. Hollings, Ranking Minority MA D John F. Kerry TN R Bill Frist ME R Olympia J. Snowe TX R Kay Bailey Hutchison MI R Spencer Abraham WA R Slade Gorton MO R John Ashcroft WV D John D. Rockefeller, IV House Commerce Committee listed in state order

State Dist. Party Representative State Dist. Party Representative CA 14 D Anna G. Eshoo NC 05 R Richard M. Burr CA 27 R James E. Rogan NJ 06 D Frank Pallone, Jr. CA 29 D Henry A. Waxman NY 02 R Rick A. Lazio CA 47 R Christopher Cox NY 07 D Thomas J. Manton CA 49 R Brian P. Bilbray NY 10 D Edolphus Towns co 01 D Diana L. DeGette NY 17 D Eliot L. Engel co 06 R Dan Schaefer NY 27 R Bill Paxon FL 06 R Clifford B. Steams OH 04 R Michael G. Oxley FL 09 R Michael Bilirakis OH 05 R Paul E. Gillmor FL 20 D Peter Deutsch OH 06 D Ted Strickland GA 09 R Nathan Deal OH 13 D Sherrod Brown GA 10 R Charles W. Norwood, Jr. OH 14 D Thomas C. Sawyer IA 04 R Greg Ganske OK 01 R Steve Largent ID 02 R Michael D. Crapo OK 02 R Tom A. Coburn IL 01 D Bobby L. Rush OR 01 D Elizabeth Furse IL 14 R J. Dennis Hastert PA 04 D Ron Klink IL 20 R John M. Shimkus PA 08 R James C. Greenwood KY 01 R Edward Whitfield TN 06 D Bart Gordon LA 03 R W. J. "Billy" Tauzin TX 04 D Ralph M. Hall MA 07 D Edward J. Markey TX 06 R Joe Barton MD 04 D Albert R. Wynn TX 29 D Gene Green MI 01 D Bart Stupak VA 07 R Thomas J. Bliley, Jr., Chairman MI 06 R Fred Upton VA 09 D Rick Boucher MI 16 D John D. Dingell, Ranking Minority WA 01 R Rick White MO 05 D Karen McCarthy WI 02 R Scott L. Klug WY AL R Barbara Cubin

Jurisdictions ofthe Commerce Committees include telecommunications policy.

American Library Association Washington Office, Library Legislative Day, May 6, 1997 House Science Committee listed in state order

State Dist. Party Representative State Dist. Party Representative AL 05 D Robert E. "Bud" Cramer, Jr. NM 01 R Steven H. Schiff AZ 01 R Matt Salmon NY 23 R Sherwood L. Boehlert CA 10 D Ellen 0. Tauscher OH 17 D James A. Traficant, Jr. CA 16 D Zoe Lofgren OK 02 R Tom A. Coburn CA 22 D Walter H. Capps OR 05 D Darlene Hooley CA 42 D George E. Brown, Jr., Ranking Minority PA 07 R Curt Weldon CA 43 R Ken Calvert PA 15 D Paul McHale CA 45 R Dana Rohrabacher PA 18 D Michael F. Doyle FL 15 R Dave Weldon PA 21 R Phil English FL 16 R Mark Foley TN 06 D Bart Gordon IL 13 R Harris W. Fawell TX 04 D Ralph M. Hall IL 15 R Thomas W. Ewing TX 05 R Pete Sessions IN 03 D Tim Roemer TX 06 R Joe Barton MD 06 R Roscoe G. Bartlett TX 08 R Kevin Brady MD 08 R Constance A. Morella TX 09 D Nick Lampson MI 03 R Vernon J. Ehlers TX 18 D Sheila Jackson Lee MI 05 D James A. Barcia TX 30 D Eddie Bernice Johnson MI 08 D Deborah A. Stabenow UT 02 R Merrill A. Cook MI 13 D Lynn N. Rivers UT 03 R Christopher B. Cannon MN 01 R Gil Gutknecht VA 11 R Thomas M. Davis, III MN 06 D Bill Luther WA 04 R Richard "Doc" Hastings MS 03 R Charles W. Pickering, Jr. WA 05 R George Nethercutt NC 02 D Bobby R. Etheridge WI 09 R F. James Sensenbrenner, Chairman

The House Science Committee will address database protection and Internet architecture issues.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee listed in state order

State Party Senator State Dist. Senator CA D Dianne Feinstein MN R Rod Grams CT D Christopher J. Dodd MO R John Ashcroft DE D Joseph R. Biden, Ranking Minority NC R Jesse A. Helms, Chairman GA R Paul D. Coverdell NE R Chuck Hagel IN R Richard G. Lugar OR R Gordon Smith KS R Sam Brownback TN R Bill Frist MA D John F. Kerry VA D Charles S. Robb MD D Paul S. Sarbanes WI D Russell D. Feingold MN D Paul D. Well stone WY R Craig Thomas

Recent intellectual property treaties initially will be referred to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

American Library Association Washington Office, Library Legislative Day, May 6, 1997 I Senate Judiciary Committee listed in state order State Party Senator State Party Senator AL R Jeff Sessions NJ D Robert G. Torricelli AZ R Jon Kyl OH R Mike DeWine CA D Dianne Feinstein PA R Arlen Specter DE D Joseph R. Biden SC R Strom Thurmond IA R Charles E. Grassley TN R Fred Thompson IL D Richard J. Durbin UT R Orrin G. Hatch, Chairman MA D Edward M. Kennedy VT D Patrick J. Leahy, Ranking Minority MI R Spencer Abraham WI D Herbert H. Kohl MO R John Ashcroft WI D Russell D. Feingold House Judiciary Committee listed in state order

State Dist. Party Representative State Dist. Party Representative AR 03 R W. Asa Hutchinson NC 12 D Melvin L. Watt CA 16 D Zoe Lofgren NJ 09 D Steven R. Rothman CA 23 R Elton Gallegly NM 01 R Steven H. Schiff CA 26 D Howard L. Berman NY 08 D Jerrold Nadler CA 35 D Maxine Waters NY 09 D Charles E. Schumer CA 44 R Sonny Bono OH 01 R Steven J. Chabot FL 08 R Bill McCollum PA 17 R George W. Gekas FL 12 R Charles T. Canady SC 04 R Bob Inglis FL 19 D Robert Wexler TN 01 R William L. Jenkins GA 07 R Bob Barr TN 07 R Ed Bryant IL 06 R Henry J. Hyde, Chairman TX 18 D Sheila Jackson Lee IN 05 R Stephen E. Buyer TX 21 R Lamar Smith IN 07 R Edward A. Pease UT 03 R Christopher B. Cannon MA 04 D Barney Frank VA 03 D Robert C. Scott MA 05 D Martin T. Meehan VA 06 R Bob Goodlatte MA 10 D William D. Delahunt VA 09 D Rick Boucher MI 14 D John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Minority WI 09 R F. James Sensenbrenner NC 06 R Howard Coble Key Subcommittee listed in alphabetical order

Courts and Intellectual Property

Berman, Bono, Boucher, Canady, Cannon, Coble (Chairman), Conyers, Delahunt, Frank (Ranking Minority), Gallegly, Goodlatte, Lofgren, McCollum, Pease, Sensenbrenner

Copyright and intellectual property issues come under the jurisdiction ofthe Judiciary Committees.

American Library Association Washington Office, Library Legislative Day, May 6, 1997 Senate Rules Committee listed in state order

State Party Senator State Party Senator AK R Ted Stevens NC R Jesse A. Helms CA D Dianne Feinstein NJ D Robert G. Torricelli CT D Christopher J. Dodd NY D Daniel Patrick Moynihan HI D Daniel K. Inouye OK R Don Nickles KY D Wendell H. Ford, Ranking Minority PA R Rick Santorum KY R Mitch McConnell TX R Kay Bailey Hutchison MS R Thad Cochran VA R John W. Warner, Chairman MS R Trent Lott WV D Robert C. Byrd

House Oversight Committee listed in state order

State Dist. Party Full Name State Dist. Party Representative CA 21 R William M. Thomas, Chairman MI 15 D Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick CT 02 D Sam Gejdenson, Ranking_Minority OH 08 R John A. Boehner MD 05 D Steny H. Hoyer OH 18 R Robert W. Ney MI 03 R V emon J. Ehlers TX 12 R Kay Granger

Both the Senate Rules Committee and the House Oversight Committee have jurisdiction over authorization for the Government Printing Office, the Federal Depository Library Program. and the Library of Congress.