HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE SETS BUDGETS FOR ARTS GROUPS
Submitted by Tommer on June 11, 2009
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior has approved a bill that sets the annual budgets for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities at $170 million each for the 2010 fiscal year. The current appropriation for these agencies is $155 million each and President Obama had requested an increase to $161 million. The new figure is still short of the National Endowment for the Arts’ high of $176 million in 1992.
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