FY07SenateHOPWALetter

Thirty-Five Senators Sign FY07 HOPWA Letter!
Bipartisan Group of Senators Request $424 Million for HOPWA in FY2007

On Wednesday, April 27^th a letter was delivered to Chairman Bond and Ranking Member Murray of the Senate Appropriations Transportation/Housing Subcommittee requesting that Appropriators fund the HOPWA program at a level of $424 million for FY07. A bi-partisan group of THIRTY-FIVE members of the Senate signed the letter supporting higher funding for the program. NAHC and our partner organizations will use this letter to leverage support for the program as Congress moves forward in the appropriations process.

Click here to view the actual letter with signatures. (Click here to view the House version of the letter)

Thank you and congratulations to everyone who assisted with this effort! Thanks to all of your hard work, after only one previous year of having a Senate letter, more than a third of the Senate signed on! If your Senator(s) did so, please call and thank them for their support (capitol switchboard 202-225-3121).

FY07 HOPWA Letter Co-Signers
(*Sponsors)

Akaka (D-HI)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Chafee (R-RI)
Clinton (D-NY)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Dayton (D-MN)
DeWine (R-OH)
Dodd (D-CT)
Durbin* (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Nelson, Bill (D-FL)
Obama (D-IL)
Reed (D-RI)
Salazar (D-CO)
Schumer (D-NY)
Smith* (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Wyden (D-OR)

(Click here to view the list of last year's signers.)

Thank you to the following organizations and individuals that assisted with this effort. Please note that there are many omissions to the list: people and organizations that called their Senators’ offices and those that passed on the Calls to Action to their networks but we were unaware of it/accidentally omitted it from our records. Thank you to those unnamed people as well…

Ms. Cassandra Ackerman, OH - AIDS Alabama, AL - AIDS Care Ocean State, RI - AIDS Delaware, DE - AIDS Foundation of Chicago, IL - AIDS Housing Corporation, MA - AIDS Housing of Washington, WA - The AIDS Institute, FL & DC - AIDS Interfaith Residential Services (AIRS), MD - AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin, WI - Alaskan AIDS Assistance Association, AK - Bailey House, NY - Baltimore Homeless Services, MD - Belle Reve, LA - Mr. Brian Basinger, CA - Broward House, FL - CARES, Inc., NY - Clare Housing, MN - Mr. Malcolm Coley, MD - Columbus AIDS Task Force, OH - Community Action Program, ND - Community Housing of Maine, ME - Compassion House, RI - Connecticut AIDS Residence Coalition, CT - Connections Community Support Programs, DE - Delaware HIV Consortium, DE - Del Norte, CO - Doorways Interfaith AIDS Residence, MO - Down East AIDS Network, ME - Eastern Maine AIDS Network, ME - Ms. Debra Fleming, IL - Foothill AIDS Project, CA - Frannie Peabody Center, ME - Glory to Glory Housing, NC - Gregory House Programs, HI - Mr. David Harre, VA - Health Connections Case Management Services, CA - HIV/AIDS Alliance for Region Two (HAART), LA - House of Joseph, DE - Housing Works, NY - Missoula AIDS Council, MT - National Alliance to End Homelessness, DC - Oakland Livingston Human Services Agency, MI - Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, LA - Rhode Island House of Compassion, RI - Richard’s Place, WI - San Francisco AIDS Foundation, CA - SAVE, Inc., MO - Seattle Housing Redevelopment Consortium, WA - Shalom House, ME - Shelter Partnership, Inc., CA - Sioux Falls Housing, SD - South Mississippi AIDS Task Force, MS - Stanley Street Treatment and Resources, RI - Tri-State HELP, MT - Ms. Joyce Turner-Keller, LA - UNITY for the Homeless, LA - Vermont Cares, VT - Vermont Housing and Conservation Board, VT - Yellowstone AIDS Project, MT

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