As Congress continues to work on appropriation bills for FY
2012, we want to make sure they keep school libraries in mind. The Senate
Appropriations Committee voted out of committee a bill that included $30
million for literacy, at least half of which must go to school libraries. But
the fight for this money is not over.
In order to keep support for school libraries going, we are
scheduling another Twitter Bomb for Thursday, Dec. 8, at 3pm EST.
Please tweet the following message at both of your
senators and your representative.
INSTRUCTIONS
Below is an example of the tweet
directed at Rep. Denny Rehberg of Montana:
@DennyRehberg
Keep $30 mil for #literacy and school #libraries in this year's federal funding!
To find out if your Congressional representatives are on
Twitter and what their handles are, visit this website: http://classic.tweetcongress.org/officials/states.
If you find that your representative is on twitter,
click their image on the left and that link will take you to his/her acct.
Once on your representative’s page, click the silhouette
icon, and enter the message in the field below the ‘Follow’ button.
If your representatives aren’t on Twitter yet, please tweet
the message out anyway, to keep the echo chamber going.
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