September 1989

              Message   from   the   Editor
JoAnne    H.    Kagiwada,
Executive    Director,    JACL-LEC
By the time this newsletter reaches you, the appropriations process
may have already worked its way through the Senate.    The next step
will be to send the House bill and the Senate bill to a joint Conference
Committee where the two versions will be negotiated into a single set
of numbers for  1990 appropriations.     That conference report will
then be voted on by both the House and the Senate, and sent on to the
President for his signature.    This must all be done before the first of
October when the  1990 fiscal year begins.    Otherwise the government
will run out of money.
We have already asked you to contact members of the Appropriations Committees of both houses.   Now it is time to get in touch with
your  Senators  and Representatives to thank them for their past support of redress.    For instance, thanks are due to Representative Neal
Smith for his outstanding attempts to get $250 million included in
the  1989  Supplemental  Appropriations,  and for trying to  get the
maximum possible appropriations for fiscal year  1990.     Even though
these efforts on his part were not successful, they helped lay the
groundwork  for  subsequent  efforts  by  others.
Remember that you have the most influence with your own members
of Congress.   CONTACT THEM NOW.   If they are members of either
Appropriations  Subcommittee,  they may be  appointed to  the  conference committee, and are especially important at this time.    Even if
they are not, the full House and Senate will have to vote for approval
of the Conference bill when the Committee finishes its work.    Urge
your members of Congress to support the highest possible level of
funding for 1990 in the conference report.    Remind them of your
earlier contacts,  and if you have  supported them politically, be  sure
to mention that also.     Appearing in this newsletter are excerpts from
letters  and action alerts  which discuss  the  importance  of immediate,
high levels of funding for redress.
We have gotten permission from the New  York Times   to reprint an
article which most of you may not see otherwise.    It appeared on their
front page a few weeks ago.   It captures in a very graphic way how
urgent it is for us to work for the highest level of funding possible.
The  simple faith in the  American democratic process expressed by
Mrs. Hokoda,  an 87  year-old retirement home resident,  is powerfully
motivating for all of us.     She said,  "We don't understand...President
Reagan promised and the government does not do it."    We don't
understand   either.
The  Redress  Monitor staff:
Rochelle Wandzura
Candace Hiromi Taira
and
JoAnne H. Kagiwada,
Editor-in-Chief
Senate      Appropriations
Subcommittee
Majority    Members
Ernest F. Hollings, Chair (SC)
Daniel K. Inouye (HI)
Dale Bumpers (AR)
Frank R. Lautenberg (NJ)
Jim Sasser (TN)
Brock Adams (WA)
Minority     Members
Warren B. Rudman, Ranking (NH)
Ted Stevens (AK)
Mark O. Hatfield (OR)
Robert W. Kasten, Jr. (WI)
Phil Gramm (TX)
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C,
20510
H»"se Appropriations
Subcommittee
Majority    Members
Neal Smith, Chair (IA)
Bill  Alexander  (AR)
Joseph D. Early (MA)
Bernard J. Dwyer (NJ)
Bob Carr (MI)
Alan B. Mollohan (WV)
Minority    Members
Harold Rogers, Ranking (KY)
Ralph Regula (OH)
Jim Kolbe (AZ)
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C,    20515
The Redress Monitor, September 1989