This year, 93 bipartisan Senators and Representatives — representing 34 different states and territories — signed on to the FY2025 Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) Dear Colleague letters. Scroll down to see the names of each signer, and be sure to thank them if your elected representative is one of them!
The House letter and Senate letter both requested $225 million in funding for the Historic Preservation Fund, the same level Preservation Action advocated for during Historic Preservation Advocacy Week. $225M includes much-needed increases for State and Tribal Historic Preservation Offices as well as critically important competitive grant programs. Specifically, the requested funding levels for the HPF include:
- $70 million for State Historic Preservation Offices
- $40 million for Save America’s Treasures
- $34 million for Tribal Historic Preservation Offices
- $28 million for the African American Civil Rights grant program
- $17 million for Paul Bruhn grants
- $13 million for HBCU preservation grants
- $11 million for the Semiquincentennial grant program
- $7 million for the History of Equal Rights Grant program
- $5 million for Underrepresented Communities Grants
The letters also noted the urgent need to reauthorize the Historic Preservation Fund. The House letter was led by the co-chairs of the Historic Preservation Caucus, Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) and Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), while the Senate letter was again led by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA). The letters were submitted to the House and Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittee last month and show substantial support for the Historic Preservation Fund.
Thank you to everyone that reached out to their members of Congress and urged them to sign on in support of a record funding for the Historic Preservation Fund. Preservation Action would especially like to thank Reps. Turner and Blumenauer and Sens. Gillibrand and Cassidy for their efforts on these letters and continued leadership on historic preservation!
Did your Representative and Senators sign-on? Be sure to thank them for their vocal support of historic preservation! Below are the list of signers organized by state.
U.S House Members
- Raúl Grijalva (AZ)
- Mark DeSaulnier (CA)
- Julia Brownley (CA)
- Judy Chu (CA)
- Jimmy Gomez (CA)
- Mike Thompson (CA)
- Nanette Barragán (CA)
- Katie Porter (CA)
- Diana DeGette (CO)
- Joe Neguse (CO)
- Joe Courtney (CT)
- Jim Himes (CT)
- Jahana Hayes (CT)
- Eleanor H. Norton (DC)
- Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE)
- Jared Moskowitz (FL)
- Darren Soto (FL)
- “Buddy” Carter (GA)
- Nikema Williams (GA)
- Lucy McBath (GA)
- Bill Foster (IL)
- Nikki Budzinski (IL)
- Darin LaHood (IL)
- Danny Davis (IL)
- Jan Schakowsky (IL)
- André Carson (IN)
- Sharice Davids (KS)
- Troy Carter (LA)
- Garret Graves (LA)
- James McGovern (MA)
- Ayanna Pressley (MA)
- William Keating (MA)
- John Sarbanes (MD)
- Kweisi Mfume (MD)
- Jamie Raskin (MD)
- Hillary Scholten (MI)
- Daniel Kildee (MI)
- Elissa Slotkin (MI)
- Angie Craig (MN)
- Ilhan Omar (MN)
- Alma Adams (NC)
- Kathy Manning (NC)
- Andy Kim (NJ)
- Bill Pascrell (NJ)
- Melanie Stansbury (NM)
- Teresa Leger Fernández (NM)
- Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (NMI)
- Dina Titus (NV)
- Steven Horsford (NV)
- Michael Lawler (NY)
- Paul Tonko (NY)
- Jerrold Nadler (NY)
- Michael Turner (OH) | co-lead
- Mike Carey (OH)
- Suzanne Bonamici (OR)
- Earl Blumenauer (OR) | co-lead
- Summer Lee (PA)
- Brendan Boyle (PA)
- Dwight Evans (PA)
- Madeleine Dean (PA)
- Chrissy Houlahan (PA)
- Jennifer González-Colón (PR)
- Seth Magaziner (RI)
- Sheila Jackson Lee (TX)
- Gerald Connolly (VA)
- Jennifer McClellan (VA)
- Abigail Spanberger (VA)
- Don Beyer (VA)
- Stacey Plaskett (VI)
- Rick Larsen (WA)
- Adam Smith (WA)
U.S Senators
- Mark Kelly (AZ)
- Laphonza Butler (CA)
- Alex Padilla (CA)
- Richard Blumenthal (CT)
- Jon Ossoff (GA)
- Bill Cassidy, M.D. (LA) | co-lead
- Edward J. Markey (MA)
- Chris Van Hollen (MD)
- Benjamin L. Cardin (MD)
- Angus S. King, Jr. (ME)
- Debbie Stabenow (MI)
- Tina Smith (MN)
- Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) | co-lead
- Sherrod Brown (OH)
- Ron Wyden (OR)
- Robert P. Casey, Jr. (PA)
- Sheldon Whitehouse (RI)
- Jack Reed (RI)
- Tim Kaine (VA)
- Mark R. Warner (VA)
- Bernard Sanders (VT)
- Tammy Duckworth (WI)
