Hi everyone, Last night the Senate passed the Labor-H/Defense minibus by a vote of 85-7, after negotiating a final manager's package of amendments, and agreeing to vote on Senator Paul's amendment on Planned Parenthood (#3967), which failed 45-48. They also took care of that point of order that Sen. Enzi was going to raise objecting to the method of offsetting the Pell Grant increase by voting to waive the Budget Act with respect to this bill. They can do that. I didn’t see anything in the list of amendments included in the manager’s package that seemed relevant for this group. HOWEVER, for the one member who has been closely following this issue , I should note that the Flake amendment to prohibit the use of funds for the development of beerbots or other robot bartenders *was* included. Jeff Jeff Carter Cell: (202) 374-4387 | @jeffcrtr Senior Policy Advisor National Coalition for Literacy www.national-coalition-literacy.org <http://www.national-coalition-literacy.org/> jcarter@literacypolicy.org <mailto:jcarter@literacypolicy.org> President, Committee for Education Funding Executive Director Physicians for Social Responsibility 1111 14th St, NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20005 www.psr.org <http://www.psr.org/> | jcarter@psr.org <mailto:jcarter@psr.org>

Jeff, Thanks. I was at a large Pell grant meeting for the incarcerated yesterday in DC where many of us are trying to track the growing Republican support for either continuing the current Pell experimental grants for inmates and/or dropping the 1994 prohibition of Pell grants for adult federal and state prisoners. It is very odd that we see more support, especially since Trump generally crushes any Obama initiatives except this one. Your HEA reports are most helpful. Right now not much is happening but we worry about about someone putting in strong restrictions on any legislation so that few inmates would qualify or benefit. Steve Stephen J Steurer, PhD Reentry/Education Advocate Sjsteurer@gmail.com 443-474-1196 tel Please forgive any typos. Sent from my iPad > On Aug 24, 2018, at 11:58 AM, Jeff Carter <jcarter@literacypolicy.org> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Last night the Senate passed the Labor-H/Defense minibus by a vote of 85-7, after negotiating a final manager's package of amendments, and agreeing to vote on Senator Paul's amendment on Planned Parenthood (#3967), which failed 45-48. They also took care of that point of order that Sen. Enzi was going to raise objecting to the method of offsetting the Pell Grant increase by voting to waive the Budget Act with respect to this bill. They can do that. > > I didn’t see anything in the list of amendments included in the manager’s package that seemed relevant for this group. HOWEVER, for the one member who has been closely following this issue , I should note that the Flake amendment to prohibit the use of funds for the development of beerbots or other robot bartenders *was* included. > > Jeff > > > > Jeff Carter > Cell: (202) 374-4387 | @jeffcrtr > > > > Senior Policy Advisor > National Coalition for Literacy > www.national-coalition-literacy.org > jcarter@literacypolicy.org > President, Committee for Education Funding > > > Executive Director > Physicians for Social Responsibility > 1111 14th St, NW, Suite 700 > Washington, DC 20005 > www.psr.org | jcarter@psr.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > National Coalition for Literacy Members mailing list > Members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org > To unsubscribe: http://lists.national-coalition-literacy.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lists.national-coalition-literacy.org

Jeff, Is the additional $25 million for adult ed. still in the final Senate version? Thanks, Art Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 24, 2018, at 2:35 PM, Steve Steurer <sjsteurer@gmail.com> wrote: > > Jeff, > > Thanks. I was at a large Pell grant meeting for the incarcerated yesterday in DC where many of us are trying to track the growing Republican support for either continuing the current Pell experimental grants for inmates and/or dropping the 1994 prohibition of Pell grants for adult federal and state prisoners. It is very odd that we see more support, especially since Trump generally crushes any Obama initiatives except this one. Your HEA reports are most helpful. Right now not much is happening but we worry about about someone putting in strong restrictions on any legislation so that few inmates would qualify or benefit. > > Steve > > Stephen J Steurer, PhD > Reentry/Education Advocate > Sjsteurer@gmail.com > 443-474-1196 tel > > Please forgive any typos. > Sent from my iPad > >> On Aug 24, 2018, at 11:58 AM, Jeff Carter <jcarter@literacypolicy.org> wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> Last night the Senate passed the Labor-H/Defense minibus by a vote of 85-7, after negotiating a final manager's package of amendments, and agreeing to vote on Senator Paul's amendment on Planned Parenthood (#3967), which failed 45-48. They also took care of that point of order that Sen. Enzi was going to raise objecting to the method of offsetting the Pell Grant increase by voting to waive the Budget Act with respect to this bill. They can do that. >> >> I didn’t see anything in the list of amendments included in the manager’s package that seemed relevant for this group. HOWEVER, for the one member who has been closely following this issue , I should note that the Flake amendment to prohibit the use of funds for the development of beerbots or other robot bartenders *was* included. >> >> Jeff >> >> >> >> Jeff Carter >> Cell: (202) 374-4387 | @jeffcrtr >> >> >> >> Senior Policy Advisor >> National Coalition for Literacy >> www.national-coalition-literacy.org >> jcarter@literacypolicy.org >> President, Committee for Education Funding >> >> >> Executive Director >> Physicians for Social Responsibility >> 1111 14th St, NW, Suite 700 >> Washington, DC 20005 >> www.psr.org | jcarter@psr.org >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> National Coalition for Literacy Members mailing list >> Members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org >> To unsubscribe: http://lists.national-coalition-literacy.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lists.national-coalition-literacy.org > _______________________________________________ > National Coalition for Literacy Members mailing list > Members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org > To unsubscribe: http://lists.national-coalition-literacy.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lists.national-coalition-literacy.org

Jeff, Thank you once again for your insightful updates. I think the Coalition should consider taking a position on Senator Flakes unfortunately amendment. I am happy to draft something if that would be helpful. Peter From: Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Carter Sent: Friday, August 24, 2018 11:58 AM To: NCL Members Subject: [NCL Members] End of the Week Labor-HHS-Education funding bill Update Hi everyone, Last night the Senate passed the Labor-H/Defense minibus by a vote of 85-7, after negotiating a final manager's package of amendments, and agreeing to vote on Senator Paul's amendment on Planned Parenthood (#3967), which failed 45-48. They also took care of that point of order that Sen. Enzi was going to raise objecting to the method of offsetting the Pell Grant increase by voting to waive the Budget Act with respect to this bill. They can do that. I didn’t see anything in the list of amendments included in the manager’s package that seemed relevant for this group. HOWEVER, for the one member who has been closely following this issue , I should note that the Flake amendment to prohibit the use of funds for the development of beerbots or other robot bartenders *was* included. Jeff Jeff Carter Cell: (202) 374-4387 | @jeffcrtr Senior Policy Advisor National Coalition for Literacy www.national-coalition-literacy.org<http://www.national-coalition-literacy.org/> jcarter@literacypolicy.org<mailto:jcarter@literacypolicy.org> President, Committee for Education Funding Executive Director Physicians for Social Responsibility 1111 14th St, NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20005 www.psr.org<http://www.psr.org/> | jcarter@psr.org<mailto:jcarter@psr.org>