The House Committee on Education and Labor will essentially start from scratch on a new bill to reauthorize the programs under the Workforce Investment Act, which includes the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998 (VR).
Like all other mandatory partners and stakeholders in WIA, the National Rehabilitation Association believes and has an Issue Statement addressing this issue which calls for separate, line-item funding authorized by the authorizing Committees of the Congress and appropriated by the Appropriations Committees in both the House and the Senate.
The National Rehabilitation Association will strongly oppose (together with many other stakeholders) any effort to have the mandatory partners in WIA (of which VR is one) assume the monetary responsibility for this purpose. NRA will work in collaboration with many other stakeholders to secure additional monies for infrastructure funding through the Appropriations' process.
To read NRA's 2010 Issues Statements, visit: www.nationalrehab.org; click on “Government Affairs” and then on “Issues Statements”.
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