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The U.S. House of Representatives passed an amendment granting theNational Endowment for the Arts (NEA) a ten million dollar budget increasefor 2003 (NEA Newsroom 2003a). The funding hike is earmarked for theagency's Challenge America initiative, which is designed to make the artsmore widely available in underserved communities across the country. National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Dana Gioia states: We welcome this much-needed, positive development. This vote of confidence in the NEA comes just as state, local, and organizational arts budgets across the country are being slashed. These funds will greatly enhance our ability to deliver the finest arts and arts education programs to all regions of the country. All Americans should be encouraged that the House recognized this as a worthy investment that will pay significant cultural and even economic dividends to communities across the country. (NEA Newsroom 2003a) The U.S. Senate is expected to take up its version of the fundingThe bipartisan amendment provides an increas
5 percent State - $104 million - 1. Members of the House-Senate conference committee who've beennegotiating the 2004 Interior Appropriations bill now agree to increase thebudget of the National Endowment for the Arts by nearly seven milliondollars. 6 percent Social Security Administration - $150 million - 2. It tops the defense budget of any other nationin the world except Japan ($45 billion). It's greater thanthe Gross Domestic Products of over two-thirds of the individual nations inworld including Lebanon, Kuwait, North Korea, Bolivia, Bosnia, Bulgaria,Croatia, Cuba, Uganda and Costa Rica (Facts About the Military Budget2003). She purportsthat: These new funds will be invested across all fifty states. Winners & LosersWinners: Defense - $31. It's more than the budgets ofevery other federal agency except for the Dept. The Slaughter-Shays-Dicks-Leach amendment wassponsored by Representatives Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and Chris Shays (R-CT), co-chairs of the Congressional Arts Caucus, Norm Dicks (D-WA), RankingMinority Member on the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee and Jim Leach(R-IA). Armed Services Marching Bands isexorbitantly higher. (NEA Newsroom 2003b) The increase stems from a bipartisan amendment passed by the House,which initially provided a ten million dollar increase for the ArtsEndowment, in addition to President George W.
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