House and Senate Add Discretionary Spending in FY09 Budget Resolution On March 14, before leaving for two weeks of spring recess, the House and Senate each adopted versions of a $3 trillion congressional budget resolution for Fiscal Year 2009. While the resolutions are similar in terms of their spending priorities, they differ on a few…
President Proposes Cut In Nea Spending For FY 2009 President Bush sent his fiscal year 2009 budget to Congress on February 4 with a spending cut of $16.3 million proposed for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) back to $128.4 million, the same budget level proposed by the President for fiscal 2008. The current…
President Signs 2008 Spending Bill With Arts Funding Increase On December 26, President Bush signed into law H.R. 2764, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008. The Fiscal Year 2008 omnibus appropriations bill, combining funds for eleven of the twelve appropriations bills awaiting final action at the end of the year, includes $144.7 million for the…
Congress Locked in Appropriations Strategy With appropriations bills bogged down on Capitol Hill, Congress may still be working on the Fiscal Year 2008 funding measures in December and January. By the end of October – one month into the new fiscal year – none of the twelve money bills have been sent to the President…
Appropriations Bills, Arts Funding On Hold With time running out on the fiscal year, and Congress unable to send a single appropriations bill to the President before the October 1 start of the 2008 fiscal year, a continuing resolution keeping all federal agencies funded at the current year’s levels until November 16 was passed by…
Arts Funding Measures Await September Action With Presidential veto threats hanging over at least half the appropriations bills moving through Congress this summer, and other legislative issues crowding the floor agenda in the House and Senate before the congressional August recess, Democratic leaders have been slowed in their efforts to move the annual spending bills…
House Votes Major Arts Fund Increase Legislation moving forward in the House and Senate would at this stage in the process provide for the first time in many years significant increases in funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The House of Representatives on June 27 voted approval of an increase of $35.6…
House Panel Votes Record NEA Fund Increase The House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee on May 23 voted a record increase in funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), approving legislation proposed by subcommittee chair Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA) setting the arts spending at $160.0 million for the 2008 fiscal year, $35.6 million above the…
NEA Chairman Presents Arts Budget to Appropriations Panel On March 20, 2007, in the first round of congressional budget deliberations for the fiscal year 2008 funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), NEA Chairman Dana Gioia testified before the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee on behalf of the administration’s budget, requesting $128.412 million for…
NEA Budget Proposal Would Streamline State Grants Details of the President’s FY2008 budget proposal made available by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) include a proposal to streamline the partnership grants to state arts agencies and regional arts organizations. Under the proposed budget plan, the entire 40 percent of NEA grantmaking funds for the…
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