Latest CEF. I think I missed forwarding a few of these earlier this week — I’ll take a look late tonight or tmw morning, and if so, I'll forward anything pertinent. Jeff > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Joel Packer <jpacker@cef.org> > Subject: Meeting Notice and mini update > Date: July 30, 2015 at 5:17:46 PM EDT > To: Joel Packer <jpacker@cef.org> > > > > REGISTER: CEF GALA 2015 <http://www.cvent.com/d/4rq3yc> > Thanks to AFT, NEA, Apple, Inc., National Student Clearinghouse, AJCU, ACT, AEE, AERA, AFSCME, AIR, ASCD/NAFME, Knowledge Alliance, NAFIS, NAICU, NASFAA, NASSP/NAESP/AFSA, NPTA/NACAC, SSWAA, Taylor Strategies, The Raben Group, Washington Partners/COHEAO and Women in Government Relations for purchasing tables/sponsorships! > > CEF UPDATES > > CEF Gala: We have now sold 268 seats - more than halfway to our goal of 500 seats. If you have not yet purchased a seat or table, I’d appreciate it if you can do so before you take August vacation. REGISTER: CEF GALA 2015 <http://www.cvent.com/d/4rq3yc>. > CEF Meetings: We’ll have our Friday meeting, tomorrow, July 31 at the University of California building– 1608 Rhode Island Ave., NW. Our guest speaker will be Sharon Parrott, Associate Director for Education, Income Maintenance and Labor at OMB. We’ll start at 9 am with breakfast snack/social time, with the meeting itself starting at 9:30 am. Click here for the agenda <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B19p6j32JwToU0tMN0k1dHRFNVk/view?usp=sharing> and here for the updated meeting schedule <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B19p6j32JwToSmpfRFhPRElXekk/view?usp=sharing>. > > This will be our last weekly Friday meeting until September 11. > > FY 2016 CR: > According to CQ, “Senate Majority Leader McConnell said, “We haven’t even begun to talk about the CR yet.” > > Meanwhile, Labor-HHS-ED Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Cole suggested “combining a long-term highway bill, a debt-ceiling increase and a budget deal into one sweeping, triple-threat vote later this year. “My thing has always been: Why take three tough votes when you can just take one?” Further he said, “I think it’ll have to be a one-for-one increase, defense versus domestic, kind of deal.” See: Cole: Roll Highway Bill, Budget and Debt Ceiling Into One Vote <http://www.cq.com/doc/news-4737122?4&srcpage=news&srcsec=cqn> (CQ) > > · After the confederate flag flap derailed House action on remaining appropriations bills, now it’s the Planned Parenthood funding fight that may derail a CR: How Planned Parenthood could shut down the government <http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/government-shut-down-planned-parenthood-120787.html?hp=t2_r> (Politico) > “Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) said dozens of House Republicans will back his effort to oppose any spending bill — whether a continuing resolution stopgap or longer-term funding package — that includes any money for Planned Parenthood. > > “This is one of those line-in-the-sand type of issues,” Mulvaney said Wednesday. “Every time we say we don’t want to spend money on something, the answer is it will provoke a shutdown.” > > ESEA: the so-called “Big Four” (Kline, Scott, Alexander and Murray) met today to discuss the next steps on ESEA. See: House, Senate Education Leaders Discuss Efforts to Replace No Child Left Behind <http://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=399220>. They agreed to “form a conference committee to reconcile the differences between the two bills and develop a bicameral agreement”. Alexander said “we should be able to achieve that this fall”. Also see: Conference Process to Rewrite ESEA Gets Underway <http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2015/07/conference_process_to_rewrite_.html>. > > Debt Ceiling: Yesterday, Treasury Secretary Lew sent a letter to Congress <http://www.treasury.gov/connect/blog/Pages/Treasury-Sends-Debt-Limit-Letter-to-Congress.aspx>. He reminded them that “On March 16, 2015, the outstanding debt of the United States reached the statutory limit. As a result, Treasury had to begin employing extraordinary measures to continue to finance the government on a temporary basis.” In terms of when such measures will run out and the debt ceiling will need to be raised, “we believe that the [extraordinary] measures will not be exhausted before late October, and it is likely that they will last for at least a brief additional period of time.” > > Joel Packer > CEF Executive Director > JPacker@cef.org <mailto:JPacker@cef.org> > 202-383-0083 > 202-255-0915 (cell) > www.cef.org <http://www.cef.org/> > www.Twitter.com/edfunding <http://www.twitter.com/edfunding> > NOTE OUR NEW ADDRESS > 1341 G Street, NW > Fifth Floor > Washington, DC 20005