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Dear Colleagues, Argonne National Laboratory Director Eric Isaacs and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Director Pier Oddone have published an opinion piece in the Chicago Tribune outlining the effects of the funding cuts proposed in the continuing budget legislation (H.R. 1). " This budget effectively reduces both labs' current budgets by 40 percent, with a loss of $83 million at Fermilab and $110 million at Argonne. We estimate the cuts would require the furlough of 1,900 employees, and layoffs for more than 1,000 others, including more than 100 postdoctoral researchers. Such cutbacks would be unprecedented. " The full commentary can be found online at: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-0225-science-20110225,0,3100822.story Sincerely, Norman Graf