Two key programs are kept intact, but HOPWA's fate remains uncertain. Clearinghouse, P.O. Box 6003, Rockville, MD 20849-6003. 800-458-5231 ext. 5023.

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Two key programs are kept intact, but HOPWA's fate remains uncertain. Clearinghouse, P.O. Box 6003, Rockville, MD 20849-6003. 800-458-5231 ext. 5023.

AIDS Policy Law. 1995 Mar 24;10(5):1, 10. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE AIDS/95700231

Abstract: The House of Representatives, at press time, was scheduled to vote on an amendment that would restore the full $186 million Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS (HOPWA) program appropriation for the current fiscal year. Advocacy groups became encouraged to save HOPWA since a recent legislative victory preserved two other AIDS programs from congressional budget-cutters. The Ryan White Comprehensive Assistance Resources Emergency (CARE) Act and a community-based prevention grant program run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were slated to be cut by the Appropriations Committee; activists credited the legislative skills of Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) for protecting these programs. HOPWA, however, didn't make it through the Appropriations Committee. House members who support AIDS programs have created an informal, bipartisan coalition (led by Pelosi and Steve Gunderson, R-Wis.) to undo the Appropriations Committee's vote on HOPWA. At press time, representatives were organizing to offer an amendment restoring the entire $186 million in HOPWA funding in exchange for the same amount of cuts in NASA's $14 billion budget, which thus far had escaped any reductions.

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