ALERT: Continue to Urge Your Senators to Protect HUD Programs FY14; time is running out

(July 29, 2013) The Senate will resume floor debate tonight on S.1243, the FY14 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) appropriations bill. The Senate will soon vote on amendments, including ones that would harm HUD programs.

If you haven’t yet reached out to your Senators, they need hear from you now that you want them to oppose negative amendments listed below, support the amendments listed below, and vote to pass S. 1243.

If you have already reached out to your Senators, thank you! Now is the time to remind them of these amendments and urge them to vote to pass S. 1243.

The vote on final passage of the bill is expected to be close. It is critical that your Senators vote to support S. 1243.

Urge your Senators to oppose these amendments:

Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) Amendment #1768 would cut funding for the HOME Investment Partnerships program from $1 billion to $950 million.

Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) Amendment #1754 would harm Homeless Assistance Grants by excluding all federal funds from being counted as matching funds for McKinney Vento grants.

Senator Coburn Amendment #1758 would cut funding for Community Development Block Grants from $3.15 billion to $2.79 billion.

Senator Coburn Amendment #1753 would eliminate the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness.

Urge your Senators to support this amendment:

Senator Coburn Amendment # 1757 would require HUD to submit a report to Congress on legislative options to modernize and improve targeting of CDBG allocation formulas.

Finally, urge your Senators to pass S. 1243.

Call your Senators now at 202-224-3121. Or, visit NLIHC’s website and enter your zip code in the Contact Congress section on the lower right hand side to find contact information.

View NLIHC’s budget chart at: http://bit.ly/1al9ivw

View NLIHC’s comparison of FY13 and FY14 bills at: http://bit.ly/162zUzO

After you take action, please email us at outreach@nlihc.org to let us know how your call went.

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