ADVERTISING UPDATE
CONGRESSIONAL UPDATE

INCLUSION OF UNDERAGE PREVENTION MESSAGES IN ONDCP MEDIA CAMPAIGN (5/17/99)

The full Appropriations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives will consider the appropriations bill approved by the Treasury, Postal and General Government subcommittee. This bill includes an amendment that authorizes the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) to include underage drinking prevention in the current media campaign.

BACKGROUND
On Friday, May 14 the Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee approved an amendment, sponsored by Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA)and Rep. Frank Wolf (VA), that allows ONDCP to include messages to prevent underage drinking in all of their anti-drug work, particularly the media campaign.

On Thursday, May 20, 1999 the full Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives will mark-up the subcommittee appropriations bill. Since this amendment was almost voted down in subcommittee, there is concern that it will not be supported in the full committee, and that the Royball-Allard/Wolf amendment will be deleted when the full committee considers the bill this week.

WHAT YOU CAN DO
It is vitally important to contact all members of the Appropriations Committee. If your Representative is on the Appropriations committee (list below), contact them, and urge them "to oppose any efforts to delete the Wolf/Royball-Allard amendment on underage drinking from the subcommittee markup." You can call the Capitol Hill Switchboard (202/224-3121), ask for your members' office. Or you can look up your representative's direct line or email address on-line at Contact Your Representative on NCADD's website.

If you have any questions, please contact the Public Policy Office via e-mail at publicpolicy@ncadd.org.

Members of the House Appropriations Committee


Alabama Robert Aderholt Sonny Callahan Robert E. "Bud" Cramer, Jr. Arizona Jay Dickey Jim Kolbe Ed Pastor California Randy "Duke" Cunningham Julian C. Dixon Sam Farr Jerry Lewis Ron Packard Nancy Pelosi Lucille Roybal-Allard Connecticut Rosa L. DeLauro Florida Allen Boyd C.W. Bill Young Carrie P. Meek Dan Miller Georgia Jack Kingston Illionois Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. John Edward Porter Indiana Peter J. Visclosky Iowa Tom Latham Kansas Todd Tiahrt Kentucky Anne Northup Harold Rogers Maryland Steny H. Hoyer Massachusetts John W. Olver Michigan Carolyn C. Kilpatrick Joe Knollenberg Minnesota Martin Olav Sabo Mississippi Roger F. Wicker 
Missouri
Jo Ann Emerson, MO

New Hampshire
John E. Sununu

New Jersey
Rodney P. Frelinghuysen

New Mexico
Joe Skeen

New York
Michael P. Forbes
Maurice D. Hinchey
Nita M. Lowey
José E. Serrano
James Walsh

North Carolina
David E. Price
Charles H. Taylor

Ohio
David L. Hobson
Marcy Kaptur
Ralph Regula

Oklahoma
Ernest J. Istook, Jr.

Pennsylvania
John P. Murtha
John E. Peterson

South Carolina
James E. Clyburn

Tennessee
Zach Wamp

Texas
Henry Bonilla
Tom DeLay
Chet Edwards
Kay Granger

Virginia
James P. Moran
Frank R. Wolf

Washington
Norman D. Dicks
George R. Nethercutt, Jr.

West Virginia
Alan B. Mollohan

Wisconsin
David R. Obey