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NLM Appropriations

MLA/AAHSL National Library of Medicine Fact Sheet (April 2012)
MLA/AAHSL House and Senate Testimony in Support of NLM's Fiscal Year 2013 Appropriation (March and April 2012)
Coalition for Health Funding Letter urging House and Senate Appropriations Committee Leadership and Labor-HHS and Education Subcommittee Members to provide the largest possible 302(b) allocation to FY13 funding; March 16, 2012

Coalition for Health Funding Letter urging House and Senate Appropriatons Committee Leadership and Labor-HHS and Education Subcommittee Members to make NIH FY 2012 funding a national priority; September 2, 2011
Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research Letter requesting that the NIH be recognized as a critical national priority in the FY 2012 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations bill; August 9, 2011
Joint MLA/AAHSL Testimony in Support of NLM's FY 2012 Appropriation as submitted to the House and Senate Labor-HHS and Education Subcommittees; April 15, 2011.
Joint MLA/AAHSL National Library of Medicine Fact Sheet requesting support for NLM's FY 2012 appropriation; March 2011.
Coalition for Health Funding request for $65 billion for discretionary public health programs in the FY 2012 budget resolution; March 24, 2011.

Joint MLA/AAHSL Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee and L-HHS and Education Subcommittee in support of NLM FY 2011 funding; March 7, 2011.
Joint MLA/AAHSL Letters to House and Senate Appropriations Committees and Labor, HHS and Education Subcommittees in support of NIH and NLM FY 2011 funding; November 2, 2010
Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research Letter urging support for FY 2011 funding for the NIH, November 1, 2010
Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research Letter urging support for $35 billion for the NIH for FY 2011; June 8, 2010.
MLA Testimony in support of NLM's FY 2011 Appropriation; April 16, 2010

Press Release Announcing Final Rules to Support 'Meaningful Use' of Electronic Health Records (July 13, 2010)
Fact Sheet on Final Regulations Define 'Meaningful Use' and Set Standards for Electronic Health Record Incentive Program (July 13, 2010)
MLA Comments to Department of Health and Human Services on "Part 2: Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Electronic Health Record Incentive Program; Proposed Rule" (March 12, 2010)
MLA Comments to the Department of Health and Human Services in support of the National Plan for Action to end health disparities among minorities; February 2010
MLA Comments to NIH re: roles of librarians in providing consumers health information from NIH databases; December 2009
MLA Comments in support of Healthy People 2020 Objectives; December 2009
MLA Statement to Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., Director, NIH in response to NIH September 9, 2009 Town Hall Meeting; Oct. 16, 2009
MLA Comments to Department of Health and Human Services on the Preliminary Definition of "Meaningful Use" of Electronic Health Records (June 26, 2009)

MLA/AAHSL letter to House Appropriations Committee Chair and Ranking Member in support of NIH funding for FY 2010; Oct. 12, 2009
MLA/AAHSL letter to Senate Appropriations Committee Chair and Ranking Member in support of NIH funding for FY 2010; Oct. 12, 2009
MLA/AAHSL letter to Senator Specter in support of the Cures Acceleration Network and NIH Reauthorization Act of 2009; May 1, 2009.
Coalition for Health Funding letter urging Congress to make public health funding a national priority; March 25, 2009 [external pdf].
MLA Testimony in support of NLM's FY 2010 Appropriation; March 17, 2009

Joint MLA/AAHSL statement: Three Principles for Meaningful Healthcare Reform (January 2009)
Joint MLA/AAHSL statement: The NIH Public Access Policy Furthers Science and Promotes Healthy People (January 2009)

Coalition for Health Funding letter urging Congress to consider the benefits to the economy of funding increases for health agencies and programs within the FY 2009 Labor, HHS, Education and Related Agencies appropriations bill; December 19, 2008 [external pdf]
Coalition for Health Funding letter urging Congress to include the highest possible funding level for health programs in the final Conferenced Labor, HHS, Education and Related Agencies bill; September 8, 2008 [external pdf]
MLA Testimony; March 30, 2008;
Coalition for Health Funding letter urging Congrss to make public health funding a national priority; February 19, 2008 [external pdf]

MLA Testimony (March 30, 2007; PDF, 39KB)
U.S. House Report 110-231
Including recommendations re: NLM's outreach activities, PubMed Central, and health information technology
U.S. Senate Report 110-107
Including recommendations re: NLM's communication of research findings and outreach activities related to disease management technology
Joint MLA/AAHSL letters thanking the House ( 270KB) and Senate ( 275KB) Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations Subcommittees for their support of the NIH (July 2007)
Coalition for Health Funding Correspondence MLA has signed onto in support of NIH funding

MLA Testimony (March 31, 2006; PDF, 46KB)
U.S. House Report 109-515
Including recommendations re: Public Access to Health Information, and outreach activities
U.S. Senate Report 109-287
Including recommendations re: NLM's work with the medical library community

MLA Testimony (April 15, 2005; PDF, 47KB)
U.S. Senate Report 109-103
Including language on PubChem and Public Access to Health Information
U.S. House Committee Report 109-143
Including language on PubChem and Public Access to Health Information

MLA Testimony
MLA Testimony Before the House Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee Regarding the Fiscal Year 2005 Appropriation for the National Library of Medicine (April 2004)
U.S. House Committee Report
House Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related AGencies Committee Report (108-636) for Fiscal Year 2005 Funding for the National Institutes of Health, including recommendations for the National Library of Medicine
U.S. Senate Committee Report
Senate Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related AGencies Committee Report (108-345) for Fiscal Year 2005 Funding for the National Institutes of Health, including recommendations for the National Library of Medicine

MLA Testimony
MLA Testimony Before the House Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee Regarding the Fiscal Year 2004 Appropriation for the National Library of Medicine (May 2003)
U.S. House Committee Report
House Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Committee Report (108-186) for Fiscal Year 2004 Funding for the National Institutes of Health, including recommendations for the National Library of Medicine
U.S. Senate Committee Report
Senate Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Committee Report (108-81) for Fiscal Year 2004 Funding for the National Institutes of Health, including recommendations for the National Library of Medicine