Congress Lags in 2011 Budget Process Congress has very little enthusiasm for taking up appropriations bills this year, and the process may hold over into a lame duck session after the November elections, when all seats in the House of Representatives and one-third of those in the Senate are on the ballot. Neither the House…
Congress is moving slowly—actually not moving very much at all—on developing a budget and drafting the appropriations bills to fund the government for the 2011 fiscal year come October 1. While President Obama was on time this year in submitting his proposed budget to Congress on February 1, the House and Senate have not kept…
Appearing before the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee on April 13, Rocco Landesman, chair of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), presented the Obama administration’s budget proposing $161.315 million for the federal arts agency in fiscal year 2011, some $6 million below the arts endowment’s current funding. Landesman testified that funding at the reduced level…
The health care reform measure signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010, provides assistance to small businesses and to nonprofit organizations in providing health insurance to their employees. The final health care package, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, provides a tax credit beginning in 2010 through 2013 for businesses and…
With the release in February of the Obama administration’s fiscal year 2011 budget plan, Congress officially enters into the appropriations season with a heavy schedule of hearings over the next two months, with agency heads sent to Capitol Hill to defend the president’s funding proposals. When the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chair Rocco…
On February 1, the Obama administration released the president’s budget for fiscal year 2011, which proposes to cut funding for the National Endowment for the Arts from the 2010 level of $167.5 million to $161.315 million in the coming year. The amount requested for 2011 is the same amount proposed by President Obama in his…
Congress Passes Catchall Appropriations Bill, Arts Ed Fund Increased Congress approved an additional $2 million in fiscal year 2010 for arts education grants through the U.S. Department of Education’s Arts in Education program, as part of an omnibus spending bill passed in mid-December with $40 million for arts education. The arts education grants funding is…
On October 30, President Obama signed into law the final version of the bill appropriating $167.5 million for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in fiscal year 2010. The funding legislation passed by the House and Senate a day earlier set the arts endowment budget for the year with an increase of $12.5 million…
Congress Close to Final Action on NEA 2010 Budget On September 24, the Senate passed the fiscal year 2010 Interior Appropriations Bill, including funds for the National Endowment for the Arts at $161.3 million, the same level proposed by President Obama in his budget sent to Congress in May. The NEA’s current budget stands at…
NEA Budget Looks to Increase in 2010 As the House and Senate move forward on schedule with appropriations legislation for the coming 2010 fiscal year, we should expect to see an increase in the budget for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) above the current level of $155 million. Although Congress has not yet…
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