Federal Advocacy

  • New Sequestration Analysis

    ADvancing States recently released a document to explain the operability of the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA)'s sequestration procedures in 2014 and beyond. The analysis, titled "Sequestration in 2014," answers several frequently-asked-questions…

  • OAA Reauthorization Bill Clears Key Hurdle, Next Steps Unclear

    During its October 30 Executive Session, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) unanimously advanced the Older Americans Act Reauthorization Act of 2013 (S. 1562) by voice vote and without amendment. The bill's next…

  • ADvancing States Urges the Senate to Reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act

    More than a decade overdue for reauthorization, the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) was designed facilitate increased coordination among federal workforce development and related programs. It is vital that Congress modernize the nation's workforce…

  • ACL Grant Funds Remain Available During Shutdown, Draw Down TA Curtailed

    During the shutdown, previously-awarded ACL grant funds will remain available for draw down. However, due to furlough requirements, grantees' ability to contact federal agencies and departments, and to receive technical assistance, will be compromised…

  • Funding Gap Causes Temporary Federal Government Shutdown

    On October 1, legislation funding the federal government's discretionary programs expired. Due to the absence of FY14 appropriations, the federal government has initiated a shutdown of affected activities, including the furlough of certain personnel…

  • ADvancing States Endorses Bipartisan OAA Reauthorization Bill

    Introduced by Senators Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, along with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the HELP Subcommittee on…

  • OAA Reauthorization Bill Introduced

    On Monday, September 30, 2013, Senators Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, along with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the HELP…

  • NASUADS, NAMD, and NASDDDS Respond to U.S. Department of Labor Changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act

    For Immediate Release
    September 18, 2013

    Statement of the NAMD, the ADvancing States, and the NASDDDS
    Responding to the U.S. Department of Labor Changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act

    Washington, D.C. - The national associations for…

  • OAA Reauthorization

    Since the OAA expired in 2011, ADvancing States has sought a bicameral, bipartisan reauthorization process that both strengthens and modernizes the Act. We are asking the same of the 113th Congress, and encourage you to make your voice heard! Help…

  • Medicaid Administrative Funding Availability for Long Term Care

    On Thursday, June 18, 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released an Informational Bulletin…

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