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…
NEA Chairman Presents Arts Budget to Appropriations Panel President’s budget proposes arts spending increase On February 5, the Bush administration sent to Congress its proposed budget for the 2008 fiscal year proposing $128.4 million in spending for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), an increase of $4 million for grants programs. Federal arts spending…
Welcome to New Members of Congress The 110th Congress convenes today, with 10 new Senators, 56 new members of the House of Representatives, and new leadership setting the agenda for the coming year. As the legislators begin to take their positions on committees and subcommittees and develop a legislative program, this is the time to…
Mid-Term Elections: Impact on Congressional Arts Support: The November 7 election results produced significant changes in Congress as the House and Senate shift to majorities for the Democrats who gained five seats in the Senate and some 29 in the House. The impact of these changes on the politics of arts legislation remains to be…
Advocates Build Support For NEA Fund Increase: While Congress is in recess until after the November elections, arts advocates are building support in the Senate for an increase in funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in the final appropriations bill for FY 2007 expected…
Appropriations Bills Top Legislative Workload: Members of Congress returned to Capital Hill after Labor Day from almost six weeks of August recess to finish work on all the unresolved matters left from the current session. At the top of the list are the fiscal 2007 appropriations bills, all unfinished. That list includes the Interior Appropriations…
Congress Stalls on 2007 Funding Bills: While the House and Senate Appropriations Committees have moved ahead with drafting the money bills for the coming 2007 fiscal year, the word from Capitol Hill is that none of the funding legislation will get wrapped up until after the November elections when Congress plans to return for a…
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