Coalition: 101 HPF Dear Colleague Co-signers...outstanding!
Harbeson, Kristen
Friends:
Breathe deep and congratulate yourselves: After a lot of hard work from all
quarters, we have reached 101 co-signers
on this year’s “Dear Colleague” funding letter! This show of support from
Congressional leaders clobbers last year’s record of 86 co-signers.
Thank you to everyone who helped in this effort.
Below is the list of co-signers. If your Congress(wo)man is on board, be sure to take a minute to thank them. As always, consider copying Elizabeth Hebron (heb...@sso.org) on your e-mails so that we can coordinate appropriate follow-up.
If you have a good story about how any of the Historic Preservation Fund programs have made a positive impact on your community or historic sites, especially with regards to economic development or job creation, it will help to strengthen their support and build the kind of interest we need to raise our profile within the halls of the Capitol. We need to help our Congressional Representatives realize what we already know: Preservation equals jobs.
Another signal that our efforts are gaining ground: On Tuesday, March 16, National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis testified before the House Interior subcommittee, led by the new chairman, James Moran (D-VA). Nearly half of the questions posed by members pertained to historic and cultural preservation, The zeroing out of Save America’s Treasures and Preserve America grant programs put the Director on the hot seat. When faced with disdain for the program cuts, Jarvis stated that the elimination of the two programs was purely a budgetary consideration, and conceded that Save America’s Treasures, especially, is very successful, especially in creating private matching contributions.
We still have a long way to go to succeed in achieving full and permanent funding, and there will be more work to do before this year’s final funding amount is passed, but in the meantime it’s great to know that our voices are being heard.
As always, thank you for all you do to protect and preserve our nation’s historic resources. Please let me know if I can be of any assistance.
Best,
Kristen
PS. And as for numbers, the Coalition now has 181 member organizations from 45 States, the District of Columbia and 2 Tribal communities! Not to mention 13 National and 2 Regional organizations. Do you think we can make it to 200 by the end of March? I bet we can….
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Rep. |
Spencer |
Bachus |
R |
AL-06 |
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Rep. |
Vic |
Snyder |
D |
AR-02 |
|
Rep. |
Mike |
Ross |
D |
AR-04 |
|
Rep. |
Raul |
Grijalva |
D |
AZ-07 |
|
Rep. |
Bob |
Filner |
D |
CA-51 |
|
Rep. |
Diana |
DeGette |
D |
CO-01 |
|
Rep. |
Jared |
Polis |
D |
CO-2 |
|
Rep. |
Betsy |
Markey |
D |
CO-4 |
|
Rep. |
Joe |
Courtney |
D |
CT-02 |
|
Rep. |
Rosa |
DeLauro |
D |
CT-03 |
|
Rep. |
Chirs |
Murphy |
D |
CT-05 |
|
Rep. |
Elenor |
Holmes-Norton |
D |
DC |
|
Rep. |
Mike |
Castle |
R |
DE-at large |
|
Rep. |
Hank |
Johnson |
D |
GA-04 |
|
Rep. |
David |
Scott |
D |
GA-13 |
|
Rep. |
Madeleine |
Bordallo |
D |
GU |
|
Rep. |
Mazie K. |
Hirono |
D |
HI-02 |
|
Rep. |
Bruce |
Braley |
D |
IA-01 |
|
Rep. |
Dave |
Loebsack |
D |
IA-02 |
|
Rep. |
Leonard |
Boswell |
D |
IA-3 |
|
Rep. |
Bobby |
Rush |
D |
IL-01 |
|
Rep. |
Jesse |
Jackson, Jr. |
D |
IL-02 |
|
Rep. |
Luis |
Gutierrez |
D |
IL-04 |
|
Rep. |
Mike |
Quigley |
D |
IL-05 |
|
Rep. |
Janice |
Schakowsky |
D |
IL-09 |
|
Rep. |
Debbie |
Halvorson |
D |
IL-11 |
|
Rep. |
Andre |
Carson |
D |
IN-07 |
|
Rep. |
Dennis |
Moore |
D |
KS-03 |
|
Rep. |
John |
Yarmuth |
D |
KY-03 |
|
Rep. |
Jim |
McGovern |
D |
MA-03 |
|
Rep. |
Barney |
Frank |
D |
MA-04 |
|
Rep. |
Niki |
Tsongas |
D |
MA-05 |
|
Rep. |
John |
Tierney |
D |
MA-06 |
|
Rep. |
Mark |
Schauer |
D |
MA-07 |
|
Rep. |
Michael |
Capuano |
D |
MA-08 |
|
Rep. |
William |
Delahunt |
D |
MA-10 |
|
Rep. |
Gregorio |
Sablan |
D |
Mariana Islands |
|
Rep. |
John |
Sarbanes |
D |
MD-03 |
|
Rep. |
Elijah |
Cummings |
D |
MD-07 |
|
Rep. |
Chris |
Van Hollen |
D |
MD-08 |
|
Rep. |
Chellie |
Pingree |
D |
ME-01 |
|
Rep. |
Michael |
Michaud |
D |
ME-02 |
|
Rep. |
Dale |
Kildee |
D |
MI-05 |
|
Rep. |
Sander |
Levin |
D |
MI-12 |
|
Rep. |
John |
Conyers |
D |
MI-14 |
|
Rep. |
Keith |
Ellison |
D |
MN-05 |
|
Rep. |
James |
Oberstar |
D |
MN-08 |
|
Rep. |
Lacy |
Clay |
D |
MO-01 |
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Rep. |
Russ |
Carnahan |
D |
MO-03 |
|
Rep. |
Emmanuel |
Cleaver |
D |
MO-05 |
|
Rep. |
Travis |
Childers |
D |
MS-01 |
|
Rep. |
G. K. |
Butterfield |
D |
NC-01 |
|
Rep. |
Bob |
Etheridge |
D |
NC-02 |
|
Rep. |
Mel |
Watt |
D |
NC-12 |
|
Rep. |
Brad |
Miller |
D |
NC-13 |
|
Rep. |
Carol |
Shea-Porter |
D |
NH-01 |
|
Rep. |
Paul |
Hodes |
D |
NH-02 |
|
Rep. |
Frank |
LoBiondo |
R |
NJ-02 |
|
Rep. |
Frank |
Pallone |
D |
NJ-06 |
|
Rep. |
Bill |
Pascrell |
D |
NJ-08 |
|
Rep. |
Donald |
Payne |
D |
NJ-10 |
|
Rep. |
Rush |
Holt |
D |
NJ-12 |
|
Rep. |
Albio |
Sires |
D |
NJ-13 |
|
Rep. |
Dina |
Titus |
D |
NV - 3 |
|
Rep. |
Joseph |
Crowley |
D |
NY-07 |
|
Rep. |
Jerrold |
Nadler |
D |
NY-08 |
|
Rep. |
Jim |
McMahon |
D |
NY-13 |
|
Rep. |
Carolyn |
Maloney |
D |
NY-14 |
|
Rep. |
John |
Hall |
D |
NY-19 |
|
Rep. |
Paul |
Tonko |
D |
NY-21 |
|
Rep. |
Michael |
Arcuri |
D |
NY-24 |
|
Rep. |
Daniel |
Maffei |
D |
NY-25 |
|
Rep. |
Brian |
Higgins |
D |
NY-27 |
|
Rep. |
Louise |
Slaughter |
D |
NY-28 |
|
Rep. |
Mike |
Turner |
R |
OH-03 |
|
Rep. |
Dennis |
Kucinich |
D |
OH-10 |
|
Rep. |
Betty |
Sutton |
D |
OH-13 |
|
Rep. |
Mary Jo |
Kilroy |
D |
OH-15 |
|
Rep. |
Earl |
Blumenauer |
D |
OR--03 |
|
Rep. |
Kurt |
Schrader |
D |
OR-05 |
|
Rep. |
Jim |
Gerlach |
R |
PA-06 |
|
Rep. |
Charles |
Dent |
R |
PA-15 |
|
Rep. |
Tim |
Holden |
D |
PA-17 |
|
Rep. |
Pedro |
Pierluisi |
PR |
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|
Rep. |
Patrick |
Kennedy |
D |
RI-01 |
|
Rep. |
James |
Langevin |
D |
RI-02 |
|
Rep. |
Henry |
Brown |
R |
SC-01 |
|
Rep. |
John |
Spratt |
D |
SC-05 |
|
Rep. |
Stephanie |
Herseth Sandlin |
D |
SD-at large |
|
Rep. |
Bart |
Gordon |
D |
TN-06 |
|
Rep. |
Steve |
Cohen |
D |
TN-09 |
|
Rep. |
Charles |
Gonzalez |
D |
TX-20 |
|
Rep. |
Eddie Bernice |
Johnson |
D |
TX-30 |
|
Rep. |
Robert |
Scott |
D |
VA-03 |
|
Rep. |
Donna |
Christensen |
D |
VI |
|
Rep. |
Peter |
Welch |
D |
VT-at large |
|
Rep. |
Tammy |
Baldwin |
D |
WI-02 |
|
Rep. |
Gwen |
Moore |
D |
WI-04 |
|
Rep. |
Steve |
Kagen |
D |
WI-08 |
|
Rep. |
Nick |
Rahall |
D |
WV-03 |
|
Rep. |
Cynthia |
Lummis |
R |
WY at-large |
Join the Coalition for Full Funding of the Historic Preservation Fund..
visit the website at: www.fullyfundhpf.org
Kristen Harbeson
State Services Director
National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers
444 N. Capitol St. NW, Suite 342
Washington D.C. 20001
(e) harb...@sso.org
(p) 202 624 5465
(f) 202 624 5419
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