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Ask your Representative to Co-Sign the Ehlers-Holt NSF Letter to House Appropriators
Jack O. Burns, Chair Committee on Astronomy and Public Policy
and
Kevin B. Marvel, Deputy Executive Officer
Summary
Congressmen Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) and Rush Holt (D-NJ) have written a letter to the appropriations committee responsible for funding NSF, the Subcommittee on Science, State, Justice and Commerce, asking that they provide $6.02B for NSF, as proposed by the President.
AAS ACTION ALERT 2005-02
David Black, Chair of the AAS Committee on Astronomy and
Public Policy and
Kevin B. Marvel, Deputy Executive Officer
Write to Chairman Wolf in Support of Basic Research Budget Tripling
AAS ACTION ALERT 2005-01
Mailed to US members from aas.org at 12:50pm 12 APRIL 2005]
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AAS ACTION ALERT 2005-1
David Black, Chair of AAS Committee on Astronomy and
Public Policy and
Kevin B. Marvel, Deputy Executive Officer
AAS ACTION ALERT 2004-06
Mailed to US members from aas.org at 9:00am 02 AUGUST 2004] ___________________________________________________________
David Black, Chair, Committee on Astronomy and Public Policy
and
Kevin Marvel, Deputy Executive Officer
SUBJECT
AAS Members Need to Write Congress to Prevent Cuts to NASA and NSF for FY 2005
SUMMARY
AAS ACTION ALERT 2004-05
Mailed to US members from aas.org at 2:00pm 26 MAY 2004]
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AAS Action Alert 2004-5
Kevin B. Marvel, Deputy Executive Officer
Summary
AAS ACTION ALERT 2004-04
[Mailed to US members from aas.org at 9:20am 10 MAY 2004]
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AAS ACTION ALERT 2004-4
Sidney Wolff, Chair of AAS Committee on Astronomy and Public Policy Roger Blandford, HEAD Chair and Kevin B. Marvel, Deputy Executive Officer
Summary
This Action Alert asks AAS members to contact their members of Congress in support of the NASA Explorer program, which received reduced funding levels in the President's FY 2005 budget proposal.
Background
AAS ACTION ALERT 2004-03
[Mailed to US members from aas.org at 12.:40pm 29 MARCH 2004]
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From: Sidney Wolff, Chair, AAS Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics Roger Blandford, Chair, High Energy Astrophysics Division and Kevin B. Marvel, AAS Deputy Executive Officer
SUMMARY
This action alert calls on AAS members to contact their members of Congress to restore the cuts to the Beyond Einstein initiative called for by the President's FY 2005 budget.
AAS ACTION ALERT 2004-02
CORRECTION
Dear AAS Members,
In the most recently issued AAS Action Alert, the bill of interest for the Astronomy community is H. Res. 550, not H.R. 550. In addition, the URL listed in the Action Alert is incorrect.
AAS ACTION ALERT 2004-02
SUMMARY
This Action Alert asks AAS members to quickly contact their
member of Congress and ask that he or she sign on as a co-sponsor to H.Res. 550, a bill entitled "Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives relating to the extraordinary contributions resulting from the Hubble Space Telescope to scientific research and education, and to the need to reconsider future service missions to the Hubble Space Telescope."
BACKGROUND
AAS ACTION ALERT 2004-01
SUMMARY
This Action Alert calls upon AAS members to contact their members of congress to repair the cuts to the Sun-Earth Connection Division (SEC) of the Office of Space Science in the President's FY 2005 budget submission. (Subsequent Action Alerts will focus on other critical areas: SEU, explorer class missions, etc.)