Appropriations on Hold as Congress Adjourns For August Recess In this highly charged election year with both political parties looking to use legislative voting records to score campaigning points, there is no chance Congress can have its spending work done by the October 1 beginning of the new fiscal year. Republicans in the House have…
House Appropriations Panel Votes $15 Million Increase For NEA On June 11, the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee agreed to increase funding to $160 million for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in the coming 2009 fiscal year. This is the same funding level proposed by the House a year ago for 2008; the current…
House Authorizing Panel Hears NEA Chair While Congress has no apparent plans to pass legislation this year to renew the authorizing statute for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)—whose funding authority technically expired in 1993—the House subcommittee with authorizing jurisdiction over the NEA and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) on May 8…
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…
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