[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 16]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 21913-21914]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                          HON. EDWARD R. ROYCE

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                     Wednesday, September 24, 2008

  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 H.R. 2638, the Consolidated 
Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act:
  Requesting Member: Congressman Ed Royce.
  Bill Number: H.R. 2638.
  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, CA 92831.
  Description of Request: This bill provides $1,600,000 to continue the 
Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) Research project being led by the 
California State University, Fullerton. Specifically, funding would be 
used for equipment

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and supplies (such as indirect calorimeter machine, microarray machine 
for genome scans, DNA sequencer), and for testing (such as brain and 
abdominal MRIs; extensive cognitive and behavioral testing; analysis of 
total energy expenditure) and personnel (lab technicians, 
nutritionists, psychologists, neuroradiologists, PWS physicians). This 
funding would allow for the continuation of this vital research on 
Prader-Willi Syndrome, which will serve as a resource to the Department 
of Defense for the 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. 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. With 54 percent of 
military personnel overweight, obesity has been identified as a public 
health priority by the surgeons general from the Army, Navy and Air 
Force. 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. This funding will build on the two-
year series of studies on PWS and obesity that are already underway. 
California State University, Fullerton will provide any statutory 
matching required through institutional sources as well as in-kind 
contributions of staff time and indirect costs.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Ed Royce.
  Bill Number: H.R. 2638.
  Account: Military Personnel--Operations & Maintenance.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: California State University System.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 401 Golden Shore, Long Beach, CA 90802-
4210.
  Description of Request: This bill provides $1,600,000 for the 
Strategic Language Initiative. Our nation's defense, diplomatic, and 
business employers need affordable, accessible strategic language 
instruction programs. The 5 California State University (CSU) campuses 
originally comprising the Strategic Language Initiative (SLI) 
Consortium have worked collaboratively 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. This 
effort provides an opportunity to tap into the diverse heritage 
language communities in California, home to the densest concentration 
of linguistic and cultural diversity in the nation. Collectively, the 
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.
  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. This 
request would build the programs within the current Consortium, and add 
CSU campuses. Lessons learned from the current programs will shape the 
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.

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