The House of Representatives voted on June 26 to pass the fiscal year 2010 Interior Appropriations bill with an increase of $15 million in the funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), bringing the proposed budget to $170 million for the coming year. The budget sent to Congress by President Obama would have…
Obama Proposes Arts Funding Increase in 2010 Arts appropriations legislation will be back on the congressional agenda when Congress returns from the Memorial Day recess in June. Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA), chair of the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee, expects to begin drafting the fiscal year 2010 funding bill by the middle of June. Arts advocates…
Legislation Would Offer Charitable Deduction for Artists’ Gifts Once again, legislation has been introduced in the House and Senate to amend the federal tax code by providing artists with a fair market value deduction for the charitable contributions of their own literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions. The goal of the legislation is to improve…
Congressional Panel Considers Economy’s Impact on the Arts Across the country, the current economic crisis is creating hardships for arts organizations struggling with declining budgets, job losses and lost sources of revenue, according to witnesses testifying before a congressional committee on March 26. The hearing, convened by the House Education and Labor Committee, is the…
President Signs Economic Stimulus Package with Funding for the Arts On February 17, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (H.R. 1), the economic stimulus legislation, which includes $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The compromise version of the bill approved by the House and Senate before leaving for…
Congress Moves Economic Stimulus Package with Funding for the Arts The House of Representatives on Wednesday, January 28, passed economic stimulus legislation – H.R.1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – with tax breaks and spending totaling $819 billion. The package includes $50 million allocated for the National Endowment for the Arts (in addition to…
Congress to Convene in January for Funding, Stimulus Package Bills After Congress adjourned on December 10 and before returning on January 6, work continued on development of an economic stimulus package and final appropriations legislation. NASAA and our advocacy colleagues are collaborating on identifying areas of possible interest for addressing the needs of the arts…
Congress Meets Briefly in a Lame Duck Session, with More Work for Congress in 2009 Apart from a brief lame duck session in the middle of November to address the extension of unemployment benefits, the 110th Congress has finished its business. The remainder of 2008 is taken up with the orientation of new members and…
Congress Adjourns, Leaving Unfinished Business Much of the arts advocacy legislative agenda for the 110th Congress, though favorably received, did not see completion by the end of the legislative session in October. Action on appropriations and most other issues was deferred until the new Congress takes office in January. Appropriations: Eager to adjourn without doing…
Congress Prepares Omnibus Funding Bill for 2009 Spending With the start of the 2009 fiscal year looming at the end of September and the date for adjournment of the current legislative session not far behind in early October, Congress passed an omnibus continuing appropriations bill that would carry FY09 spending into March 2009 at the…
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