Authors: National Council of Urban Indian Health

Publication Year: 2009

Last Updated: 2010-07-13 10:04:51

Journal: NCUIH

Keywords: NCUIH, National Council of Urban Indian Health, FY 2010, Appropriations, UIHP, Urban Indian Health Program, Legislative

Short Abstract:

The FY2010 Interior Appropriations passed on October 29, 2009. It included a 7 million dollar increase for the Urban Indian Health Program. A nearly 20% increase over the previous years appropriation for the program and the single largest increase the entire history of the UIHP. The ground work for this increased was first laid with Representative Dicks a staunch supporter of the UIHP and the incoming Obama Administration. Starting in November of 2008 NCUIH started working with the incoming Obama Administration and key Congress members to ensure that the FY2009 and FY2010 appropriation began to address the near decade of flat funding under the Bush Administration. Despite the herculean efforts of Representative Dicks, chairman of the Interior Appropriation Subcommittee, to increase the UIHP budget item in recent years, expanding the UIHP budget provide difficult when the Bush Administration insisted on zeroing out the program for three years running. NCUIH hoped that with a new, sympathetic administration that Representative dicks would have the leverage necessary to expand the UIHP budget.

Abstract:

The FY2010 Interior Appropriations passed on October 29, 2009. It included a 7 million dollar increase for the Urban Indian Health Program. A nearly 20% increase over the previous years appropriation for the program and the single largest increase the entire history of the UIHP. The ground work for this increased was first laid with Representative Dicks a staunch supporter of the UIHP and the incoming Obama Administration. Starting in November of 2008 NCUIH started working with the incoming Obama Administration and key Congress members to ensure that the FY2009 and FY2010 appropriation began to address the near decade of flat funding under the Bush Administration. Despite the herculean efforts of Representative Dicks, chairman of the Interior Appropriation Subcommittee, to increase the UIHP budget item in recent years, expanding the UIHP budget provide difficult when the Bush Administration insisted on zeroing out the program for three years running. NCUIH hoped that with a new, sympathetic administration that Representative dicks would have the leverage necessary to expand the UIHP budget.

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