ERIC PERSONS

Asked Congress for the Perkins Loan Program to be continued as a part of the Appropriations process

Urged the reauthorization of the Federal Perkins Loan Program

Recommended to the US Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee to reauthorize the America COMPETES Act

Asked to support funding for high energy physics research

Recommended to Committee on Energy and Commerce in the House of Representatives (Chairman Upton and Ranking Member DeGette) to support 21st Century Cures Act (H.R. 6)

Contacted Congressman Katko's office about HR 1546 Public Broadcasting emergency funding

Contacted Congressman Katko regarding support of the reauthorization of the Federal Perkins Loan Program

Briefed offices of Senators Schumer and Gillibrand and Congressman Katko on Higher Education issues.

Briefed offices of Senators Schumer, Gillibrand and Congressman Katko on Syracuse University's veterans-related initiatives

Cold Case Justice Initiative (CCJI) faculty, students and family met with members of the Congressional Black Caucus (Rep. John Conyers, Rep. Bennie Thompson, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, Rep. Robin Kelly, Rep. Joyce Beatty, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II) about the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2007

Briefed offices of Senators Schumer and Gillibrand and Congressman Maffei on the University's research efforts in Unmanned Aircraft Systems.

Expressed the University's concerns regarding the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science and Technology (FIRST) Act.

Expressed the University's support of the Technology and Research Accelerating National Security and Future Economic Resiliency (TRANSFER) Act of 2013.

Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF).

National Defense Reauthorization Act of 2015.

Updated offices of Senator Gillibrand and Representatives Maffei, Hanna, and Slaughter concerning the work of SU's Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF).

Discussed the importance of the Charitable Deduction as a source of financial aid in higher education, with the offices of Senator Gillibrand, and Representatives Rangel, Lowey, Maffei, and Crowley.

1) Briefed Senators Schumer and Gillibrand and Congressman Maffei on Syracuse University programs. 2) Submitted comments on upcoming Higher Education Act reauthorization to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Contacted office of Senator Schumer to communicate support for the following as Congress considers tax reform: 1) simplifying tax credits for higher ed students; 2) preserving charitable deduction and IRA charitable rollover; and 3) preserving means for families to save for college (education savings plans), and to repay student loans (student loan interest deduction; federal loan forgiveness programs)

Asked Senators Schumer and Gillibrand and Congressman Maffei to sponsor the Collegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act of 2013 (S. 654/ HR.1449). Asked Senators Schumer and Gillibrand to address the student loan interest rate increase.

Met with representatives of the US Postal Service, US Attorney's office, Senators Schumer and Gillibrand, and Congressman Maffei. Discussed mission and initiatives of Syracuse University's Forensics and National Security Sciences Insitute.

Briefed Senator Gillibrand's office about initiatives of Syracuse University's Institute for Veterans and Military Families.

Briefed offices of Senators Schumer and Gillibrand and Congressman Maffei on activities of Syracuse's Near West Side Initiative

Briefed the offices of Senators Schumer and Gillibrand and Congressman Maffei on the activities of the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems.

Briefed office of Congressman Owens on activities of Syracuse University's Institute for Veterans and Military Families.

Discussed activities of the the University's Cyber Engineering program with the staffs of Senator Gillibrand and Representative Richard Hanna.

Contacted Senators Schumer and Gillibrand and Representative Buerkle concerning the importance of funding the National Science Foundation, National Insitutes of Health, and other research agencies in FY13.

Updated officials from legislative offices on activities and initiatives of SU's Institute for Veterans and Military Families

Briefed offices of Senator Schumer, Senator Gillibrand and Congresswoman Buerkle on activities and potential funding needs of the Say Yes to Education program.

Briefed the offices of Senator Schumer, Senator Gillibrand, and Congresswoman Buerkle on the activities of the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems.

1.) Discussed the University's capabilities re: cybersecurity training with Army's Cyber Command. 2.) Updated Congressman Hanna on activities of the Griffiss Insitute in Rome, New York, and asked for his participation in an event there.

Asked Senators Schumer and Gillibrand to support the "American Community Survey", the only source of localized data that SU's Burton Blatt Institute uses to serve unemployed veterans and those with special needs.

Briefed office of Senator Schumer on the activities of Syracuse University-led Near Westside Initiative and potential funding sources for nonprofit partner Home Headquarters.

Urged Senators Schumer and Gillibrand to restore NSF's political science program funding in the Senate's FY13 CJS appropriations bill.

Briefed the offices of Senators Schumer and Gillibrand, and the offices of Representatives Steve Israel, Bill Owens, Richard Hanna, and Ann Marie Buerkle, on the activities of the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems and the activites of the NY Energy Research Innovation Center consortium.

Briefed Senators Schumer & Gillibrand, Representatives Buerkle & Owens on US DOT's TIGER III grant for Syracuse's Connective Corridor. Briefed Rep. Mica and gave a tour of the Connective Corridor.