{"id":12552,"date":"2020-09-21T19:22:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T19:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsli.org\/?p=12552"},"modified":"2020-09-21T19:22:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T19:22:25","slug":"legislative-news-09-21-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/legislative-news-09-21-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative News, 09\/21\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Federal News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/09\/10\/senate-coronavirus-relief-package-411635\">Senate Democrats block Republican Covid relief proposal<\/a> [Politico, 9\/10\/2020]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Senate Democrats blocked a scaled-down, $500 billion Republican coronavirus relief measure Thursday, weakening the chances that Congress will approve another package before the November election.&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/116th-congress\/senate-bill\/178\">S.178<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/americanlibrariesmagazine.org\/blogs\/the-scoop\/pushing-for-action-on-lsfa\/\">Pushing for Action on LSFA<\/a> [American Libraries, 9\/14\/2020]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[The Library Stabilization Fund Act] (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/116th-congress\/senate-bill\/4181\">S. 4181<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/116th-congress\/house-bill\/7486\">H.R. 7486<\/a>) would establish a $2 billion emergency fund to address financial losses and bolster library services for libraries of all types, with priority given to the hardest-hit communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>State News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sj-r.com\/news\/20200915\/pritzker-orders-agencies-to-start-looking-at-cuts\">Pritzker orders agencies to start looking at cuts<\/a> [State Journal-Register, 9\/15\/2020]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal News Senate Democrats block Republican Covid relief proposal [Politico, 9\/10\/2020] &#8220;Senate Democrats blocked a scaled-down, $500 billion Republican coronavirus relief measure Thursday, weakening the chances that Congress will approve another package before the November election.&#8221; (S.178) Pushing for Action on LSFA [American Libraries, 9\/14\/2020] &#8220;[The Library Stabilization Fund Act] (S. 4181\/H.R. 7486) would establish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}