roundtable: FW: Act Immediately to Save OTA

roundtable: FW: Act Immediately to Save OTA

FW: Act Immediately to Save OTA

Wood, Fred (fwood@itc.ota.gov)
Wed, 21 Jun 95 13:17:00 PDT 

From: "Wood, Fred" <fwood@itc.ota.gov>
To: Telecom Policy Roundtable <roundtable@cni.org>
Subject: FW: Act Immediately to Save OTA
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 95 13:17:00 PDT
Message-Id: <2FE88010@mailserver.ota.gov>


Forwarded by
Fred Wood 
<fwood@itc.ota.gov>

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HOUSE FLOOR DEBATE ON FUTURE OF OTA SET FOR WEDNESDAY --CALL YOUR MEMBER OF 
CONGRESS NOW
The House Appropropriations Committee has formally recommended a zero FY96 
budget for the Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress.  Information 
on OTA's reports and current activities may be obtained from the OTA OnLine 
World Wide Web site at http://www.ota.gov or by telnet to otabbs.ota.gov, 
login as public.   A bipartisan group of Members of Congress will attempt to 
restore enough funds to retain a critical mass of expertise at a downsized, 
perhaps restructured OTA.  The effort to save OTA will take the form of 
proposed amendments to the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act for FY96 
that is scheduled to come to the floor of the House of Representatives for 
consideration and vote Wednesday, June 21, 1995, probably in the early 
afternoon.  The floor debate will be televised on C-SPAN.  Persons 
interested in expressing an opinion on the future of OTA should contact the 
Washington, DC office of their own Member of Congress by phone IMMEDIATELY.

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