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Human Services Committee: State-Federal Relations
Communications to Congress and the Administration 

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Testimony before Congress on behalf of NCSL

• Testimony of Representative Brian Flaherty submitted for the record to the Social Security Subcommittee hearing on "Protecting Privacy & Preventing Misuse of Social Security Numbers" (May 22, 2001)

Comments on Federal Regulations

• NCSL comments on revisions to regulations implementing the Cash Management Improvement Act of 1990 (CMIA)
• NCSL comments on the reauthorization of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA)

Communications to the U.S. Congress/Administration

• Social Services Block Grant Funding: NCSL asks the US Comptroller General about the legality of HHS requiring SSBG state plans based on the lower funding level proposed by the Administration. (September 2006)
• NCSL Urges Child Care Reauthorization:National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) strongly urge that the nonsupplantation ammendment not be accepted.
• Faith-Based Legislation Care Act of 2003: 2/26/03 letter sent to U.S. Senate urging support for the CARE Act of 2003 (S. 272)
  Joint NCSL and APHSA letter to President Bush regarding restoration of SSBG funding to the $2.38 billion level set in the 1996 welfare reform law (December 14, 2001)
• Letter of support to Sen. Harkin and Sen. Lugar regarding the proposals to strengthen and simplify the food programs in the Nutrition Title of the Farm Bill (November 7, 2001)
• Letter to President Bush re: the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG, Title XX of the Social Security Act). (March 2, 2001)
• Letter to President Bush urging him to give careful consideration to a number of issues within the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture as he decides on the priorities of his Administration for the next four years. (February 26, 2001)
• Letter to President Bush urging him to give careful consideration to a number of issues concerning our nation's children as he decides on the priorities of his Administration for the next four years. (February 26, 2001)
• Letter to Senator Rockefeller and Senator Snowe re: their plan to introduce legislation creating a new block grant program designed to address the connection between substance abuse and child welfare. (February 23, 2001)

Former State Legislators in Congress

Former State Legislators In the 107th Congress
List of former state legislators in the 106th Congress