LEGISLATIVE ACTION NOTICE
DATE:     August 1, 1996
FROM:     James Gashel
  RE:     Action completed on the legislative branch
          appropriations bill
     Congratulations to all of you who worked on our two issues in the 
Legislative Branch appropriations bill.  The conference between the Senate 
and House is over, and we were 100 percent successful.  The conference 
agreement includes our amendments to the Copyright Act and does not grant the 
Librarian of Congress the authority to transfer funds from one program to 
another within the Library.
     Words of appreciation and thanks for their decisions should be sent to 
the following:
Representative Ron Packard, Chairman, Subcommittee on the
Legislative Branch, Committee on Appropriations, United States House of 
Representatives; and
Senator Connie Mack, Chairman, Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch, 
Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate.
     A special word of thanks should also be sent to Senator John Chafee for 
sponsoring the copyright amendments.  He expressed an interest in helping 
with this legislation after speaking with members of the NFB of Rhode Island. 
 Senator Chafee was true to his word in following up and leading the effort 
in the Senate to have the changes in the copyright law attached to the 
Legislative Branch appropriations bill.
     Thanks to all.
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