July 12, 2002

Congress Eyes Modest Increases for Cultural Endowments

By RON SOUTHWICK

When President Bush proposed in February a modest increase in spending on the nation's cultural endowments for the 2003 fiscal year, college lobbyists hoped that they would be able to persuade Congress to tack on some more money.

So far, lawmakers have not done so, and advocates are not sure that any more will be coming.

Late last month, the House of Representatives and the Senate more or less followed the president's proposals to raise spending by just over 1 percent for the

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