June 15, 2001

House Panel Seeks Flat NEH Budget

By RON SOUTHWICK

A House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee voted last week to maintain current spending levels for the cultural endowments for the 2002 fiscal year. Democrats on the panel said they would like to be more generous to the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, but they acknowledged that it would be difficult to get more money.

The House panel voted to give the N.E.H. a budget of $120.3-million for 2002, matching President Bush's

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