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“I think my visits were a success! I’d do this again in a minute.

Here is what one MLA member had to say about their 2010 Capitol Hill Day experience: For example, this is a chance for you to talk with your officials about the importance of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and how it helps your library, users, and local community. These meetings give you the opportunity to educate and communicate with your elected officials and their staff about issues of importance to the health sciences library community. Why meet with your congressional representatives?

featuring tips for scheduling and planning the meetingsĬapitol Hill Meetings will take place between May 10-21, 2021.

developing handouts that members can use in their meetings.

providing links to MLA statements and other helpful resources addressing relevant issues.

offering a series of informational sessions via Zoom through December 2020–May 2021.

The Governmental Relations Committee will support members’ advocacy efforts by This website provides information, tools, and resources to support MLA members’ efforts to engage in successful meetings. In May 2021, as part of MLA ’21, MLA members are invited to conduct virtual meetings with their elected officials and their congressional staff as part of a group advocacy effort of health sciences librarians across the United States. Introduction to 2021 Capitol Hill Meetings

If you cannot access the google form, please download this offline version of the survey, complete it, and email it to Mary Langman at Send an email thanking the Congressional staff member you met with and share additional follow up information discussed in your meeting.

Please complete this Congressional Meetings Feedback Google Survey.

We will provide more information and a link when it is made public. For those meetings that are scheduled after May 27 th, we recommend referring to the President's proposed budget, which should be available by the end of May.

We understand if you have not been able to schedule your meetings during the original time frame. See Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research May 28 press release for more information. To advance the mission of the NIH and other targeted initiatives, it is critical that funds for these initiatives supplement rather than supplant the core investment of NIH. Additionally, we support the President's proposal regarding the proposed Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). The associations join with the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research in recommending that NIH receive $46.1 billion in FY 2022 appropriations to support its base level program funding. MLA 2021 Capitol Hill Meetings JUPDATE: NIH FY 2022 BUDGET RECOMMENDATION MLA and AAHSL applaud President Biden for recommending a historic level of $51 billion in funding for NIH in FY 2022.