As I noted yesterday, the House Budget Committee introduced a bill yesterday to raise the discretionary caps for FY 2020 and 2021 - the last two years with caps set by the Budget Control Act of 2011. The bill provides “parity" in that it raises both defense and non-defense discretionary (NDD) caps by the same amount over the existing sequester-level cap. The Committee published several reports, the bill text, and a section-by-section analysis on their web site if you’re interested. https://budget.house.gov/ <https://budget.house.gov/> The Senate is not likely to go along with raising the caps as much as the House is proposing, and the President is currently dead set against raising the caps on NDD spending at all, but, still, this is a nice first step towards some kind of eventual cap-raise deal. Importantly, House Appropriations Committee Chair Nita Lowey (D-CA) will allocate funding to the 12 government funding bills based on these totals. So that means, if today's bill passes, there is more likely to be an opportunity for the House Appropriations Committee to fund adult ed at a higher level than last year in the House Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill. The markup on the Budget Committee’s bill started about 45 minutes ago. CEF (@edfunding) isn’t there but is tweeting during the markup about the reasons an increase in NDD funding is important, using #RaiseTheCaps and #5Cents4edfunding as hashtags. So one thing you might consider doing this afternoon is to look for this hashtag on twitter and retweet their calls to raise the caps, or look at what CEF is tweeting at come up with your own tweets in support. Sorry this is both brief and a bit late! Jeff