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Increase in arts funding approved
On August 2, 2005, with Congress in recess, President Bush signed into law H.R. 2361, the FY06 Interior Appropriations Bill, with an increase of $5 million for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). This is reduced to a net gain of $4.4 million after applying .476 percent across-the-board cut to all programs, putting the arts endowment at $125.66 million for year ahead. The final funding level agreed to by the conference committee represented a compromise between the House-passed bill, which would have added $10 million to the NEA budget, and the Senate's bill, which carried $5 million in new money for the arts endowment. Many players were involved in getting Congress to agree to additional arts spending this year, with spending restraints imposed by a tight budget resolution and no NEA increase proposed in the president's budget. For further information, CLICK HERE.
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