[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 116 (Wednesday, July 29, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2084]
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                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                          HON. EDWARD R. ROYCE

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, July 29, 2009

  Mr. ROYCE. Madam Speaker, pursuant to the Republican Leadership 
standards on earmarks, I am submitting the following information 
regarding earmarks I received as part of the Department of Defense 
Appropriations Act, 2010.
  Requesting Member: Representative Ed Royce
  Bill Number: H.R. 3326
  Account: Operations & Maintenance--Defense Wide
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: California State University
  Address of Requesting Entity: 401 Golden Shore, Long Beach, CA 90802-
4210
  Description of Request: To provide $3,600,000 for the Strategic 
Language Initiative. Our nation's defense, diplomatic, and business 
employers need affordable, accessible strategic language instruction 
programs. The five California State University (CSU) campuses 
originally comprising the Strategic Language Initiative (SLI) 
Consortium worked collaboratively between 2005 and 2007 to create an 
effective model capitalizing on campus language expertise, student 
heritage language diversity, and local linguistic communities in 
Arabic, Mandarin, Korean, Persian, and Russian.
  No single university has the resources to meet this rapidly changing 
need for global and regional expertise in a wide range of world 
languages. National efforts have concentrated on developing flagship 
programs in languages such as Chinese, Arabic, Russian, and Korean, and 
creating demonstration materials for offering languages online. These 
efforts have not adequately tapped into the diverse heritage language 
communities in California, home to the densest concentration of 
linguistic and cultural diversity in the nation. Collectively, through 
the establishment of the CSU Consortium for the Strategic Language 
Initiative, the southern California campuses of the CSU system have 
collaborated to provide an innovative approach to intensive language 
learning that can be a model for other metropolitan consortia. These 
universities serve the most linguistically diverse populations in the 
country, with large heritage communities near different campuses, and 
collectively enroll over 100,000 students each year. Initial 
participating campuses are CSU Long Beach, Fullerton, Los Angeles, 
Northridge and San Bernardino. Preliminary assessment data collected 
from SLI participants showed an average language development progress 
that significantly exceeds traditional classroom and course-based 
program in Arabic, Korean, Mandarin, and Persian. Compared to other 
models of critical language development, the SLI Model is very cost-
efficient and effective in advancing a large group of undergraduate and 
graduate students through several language proficiency levels across 
multiple campuses in a relatively short time period, for a fraction of 
the funding available to other programs. The Consortium's success in 
southern California can be enhanced by developing a similar model in 
northern California. This request would build the programs within the 
current Consortium, and add CSU campuses in San Francisco and San Jose. 
Lessons learned from the current 5 programs will shape the 2 new 
programs. The legacy of this federal investment will be an 
instructional model sustained by the CSU system that effectively 
responds to the national challenge to graduate more professionals with 
language and cultural knowledge and skills for an increasingly 
interdependent global world.
  Requesting Member: Representative Ed Royce
  Bill Number: H.R. 3326
  Account: U.S. Army, Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E) 
Legal Name of Requesting Entity: California State University, Fullerton
  Address: 800 N. State College Boulevard, Fullerton, California 92831
  Description of Request: Provide $2,000,000 to continue the Prader-
Willi Syndrome
  (PWS) Research project being led by the California State University, 
Fullerton. This funding would allow for the continuation of vital 
research on Prader-Willi Syndrome, which will help the Department of 
Defense and its many military families, with children affected by this 
disorder. More importantly, the research will serve as a resource to 
the Department for the treatment and study of obesity in general. The 
strong manifestation of obesity in children with PWS makes it an 
excellent model for the study and control of obesity in general. 
Military health experts have characterized the growing problem of 
obesity amongst active duty and potential recruits as a national 
security issue because of its overall impact on the health, 
performance, and readiness of our armed forces. Furthermore, obesity 
places a significant cost burden on the military and veterans' health 
care systems. This request is consistent with the intended and 
authorized purpose of the Army, RDT&E Account and consistent with the 
DoD mission.
  Funding will be used to provide better understanding of how 
individuals with PWS progress from an initial failure to thrive to 
morbid obesity. Improved understanding of the various nutritional 
phases of PWS will not only benefit the treatment and management of 
PWS, but also provide valuable insights into obesity in general. 
Researchers will also test the effectiveness of various intervention 
programs.

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