2022 Letters to Congress and federal agencies

• CDC Coalition year-end FY 2024 letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committee leaders (Dec. 20)
• Friends of HRSA year-end FY 2024 letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committee leaders (Dec. 19)
• Health organization letter to EPA urging the agency to quickly finalize key rules that will provide clean air and a healthier environment for all (Dec. 13)

• APHA letter opposing the cuts to public health funding and anti-public health policy riders in the House FY 2024 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill (Nov. 13)
• Health organization letter to the House of Representatives opposing cuts to EPA and HHS clean air and climate change programs in House FY 2024 appropriations bills (Nov. 2)

• Organization letter to President Biden urging CMS to finalize a proposed rule to grant DACA recipients access to health care through the ACA marketplace (Oct. 16)

• Organization letter to the House and Senate urging full funding for the WIC program in the continuing resolution and final FY24 legislation (Sept. 25)
• Organization letter to the Senate HELP Committee opposing cuts to the Prevention and Public Health Fund included in proposed primary care legislation (Sept. 20)
• Organization letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture urging strong whole grain-rich standards in the WIC program (Sept. 16)

No letters

• Organization letter to Congress in support of the Preventing Maternal Deaths Reauthorization Act of 2023 (July 26)
• Organization letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee opposing autonomous vehicle (AV) legislation that would allow for mass exemptions for autonomous vehicles from federal motor vehicle safety standards (July 19)
• Organization letter to Congress urging strong funding for public health and opposing all policy riders in appropriations bills (July 19)

• Organization statement urging Congress to support robust funding for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) (June 13)

• Public health organization letter opposing the inclusion of environmental permitting reform in debt ceiling negotiations (May 17)
• Organization letter to appropriations committee leaders urging key funding priorities for school meals and child nutrition (May 17)
• Organization letter to Congress opposing cuts to nondefense discretionary funding in FY 2024 and beyond (May 15)

• Organization letter opposing rollbacks of key clean energy and climate provisions in H.R. 2811, the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023 (April 26)
• APHA letter opposing H.R. 2811, the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023 (April 25)
• Organization letter to House and Senate appropriators supporting FY 2024 funding of $35 million for CDC, $25 million for NIH, and $1 million for NIJ for firearm morbidity and mortality prevention research (April 19)
• Organization letter to Congress opposing any cuts to the Medicaid program (April 19)

• APHA letter in support of H.R. 12, the Women's Health Protection Act (March 29)
• APHA letter in support of the Alan Reinstein Ban Asbestos Now Act (March 28)
• Health organization letter to House appropriators urging them to fully fund the Public Health Workforce Loan Repayment Program at its $100 million authorization level and provide $50 million to launch the new Bio-Preparedness Workforce Pilot Program at the Health Resources and Services Administration (March 24)
• Health organization letter to House appropriators urging them to to significantly increase federal funding for domestic and global antimicrobial resistance programs in FY 2024 (March 24)
• Health organization letter to House and Senate appropriators urging increased funding in FY 2024 for CDC's Data Modernization Initiative and the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (March 24)
• Health organization letter to House appropriators in support of FY 2024 funding for CDC's Community Violence Intervention Initiative through the Division of Violence Prevention (March 24)
• Health organization letter to House appropriators in support of FY 2024 funding for CDC's Advanced Molecular Detection program (March 24)
• Organization letter to House and Senate appropriators supporting $1 billion in FY24 funding for the Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Services Block Grant (March 23)
• Organization letter to House and Senate appropriators supporting $100 million in FY24 funding for CDC's Surveillance for Emerging Threats to Mothers and Babies program (March 23)
• Health organization letter in support of $100 million for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry in FY 2024 (March 23)
• Friends of HRSA letter in support of at least $10.5 billion in FY24 funding for HRSA (March 23)
• Health organization letter in support of $420.85 million for CDC's National Center for Environmental Health in FY 2024 (March 22)
• CDC Coalition letter to appropriators in support of at least $11.581 billion in funding for CDC in FY 2024 (March 22)
• Organization letter to Senate appropriators in support of strong FY 2024 funding for the Department of Transportation's for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (March 22)
• Health organization letter to Congress in support of the DACA program and urging Congress to provide Dreamers with an opportunity to earn lawful permanent residence in the 118th Congress (March 21)
• Health organization letter to House and Senate appropriators in support of $110 million in FY 2024 for CDC's Climate and Health program (March 17)
• Health organization letter to House and Senate appropriators in support of $5 million in FY 2024 for the HHS Office of Climate Change and Health Equity (March 17)
• Health organization letter to Congress in support of $12 billion for EPA in the FY 2024 Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations bill (March 17)
• Health organization letter to Congress opposing S.184 and H.R. 277 - the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2023 (March 17)
• Organization letter to congressional leaders in support of the PASTEUR Act to address antimicrobial resistance (March 8)
• Organization letter to House and Senate appropriators supporting $500 million in FY24 funding for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (March 8)
• Organization letter to the Biden administration urging implementation of the administration's Executive Order Promoting Access to Voting (March 2)

• Organization letter to Congress urging repeal of the lifetime ban on individuals with drug felony convictions on accessing the SNAP and TANF nutrition programs (Feb. 28)
• Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee leaders from the Steering Committee of the Gun Violence Prevention Research Roundtable coalition in support of continued funding for gun violence prevention research (Feb. 16)
• National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity Farm Bill priorities for the 118th Congress (Feb. 13)
• APHA letter to House leaders in support of H.R. 715, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act (Feb. 8)
• Gun Violence Prevention Research Roundtable Steering Committee letter to Appropriations Committee leaders urging continued and increased funding for research on firearm-related morbidity and mortality (Feb. 7)

• APHA letter opposing several House bills related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic (Jan. 31)
• Health organization letter to OMB, HHS and HRSA in support of strong funding for the Public Health Workforce Loan Repayment Program and the BIO Preparedness Workforce Pilot Program in the president’s FY 2024 budget request (Jan. 27)