July 2, 1999

Senate Panel Approves Budget Increases for Endowments

By DAN CARNEVALE

The Senate Committee on Appropriations last week approved a bill giving the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities each $1-million more in fiscal 2000 than they are receiving this year -- far less than President Clinton has proposed and than the agencies have hoped for.

The committee voted to spend $99-million on the arts endowment and $111.7-million on the humanities endowment. President Clinton

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