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ADVOCACY
This year, NRPA will continue to
ensure local park and recreation
professionals have a strong voice in
Washington, D.C.
The Year Ahead in Washington, D.C.
By Dan McCarthy
A
House
to
raise
s we enter 2024, the 118th Congress will head into its second
term. Convening in January 2023, this Congress has been tumultuous
from its outset, marked by political divisions with
Democrats in control of the White House and the Senate and
Republicans taking back control of the House.
Notably, there also have been
significant
divisions
Republican
within
the
Caucus,
from the very beginning of the
session with the weeks-long series
of votes
the
debt
ceiling,
now ongoing negotiations
to elect then-Speaker
Kevin McCarthy, wrangling over
compromise with
Democrats
and
over
federal spending levels that have
led to McCarthy's ouster
replacement with Speaker Mike
Johnson. Wars in Ukraine and
Israel-Gaza, attempts
to
repeal
portions of President Joe Biden's
climate agenda, efforts to pass a
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and
new Farm Bill and more also have
taken center stage.
Meanwhile, NRPA has been
hard at work advancing policy
wins for local parks and recreation.
Early in 2023, we defeated an effort
to prohibit congressional earmark
funding from being used for
park and recreation activities, and
throughout the year, we fostered
the advancement of the Outdoors
For All Act as a part of the broader
America's Outdoor Recreation
Act package. We also have fought
to protect and expand important
sources of federal funding for parks
and recreation in final fiscal year
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2024 (FY24) spending legislation.
In 2024, we will continue and grow
these efforts to ensure local park and
recreation professionals have a strong
voice in Washington, D.C. Some key
items to be on the lookout this year
are summarized below.
Spending Negotiations
While Congress managed to avert a
government shutdown not once but
twice in 2023, most recently passing
a continuing resolution (CR) at status
quo spending levels before leaving
town for Thanksgiving, these negotiations
will be at the forefront in
January. The CR took a " laddered "
approach, meaning that it split up
the various spending bills that Congress
must pass into two deadlines
- January 19 and February 2.
The key dynamic at play is a nearly
$100 billion split in topline spend

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