September 25, 1998

Senator's Bid to Kill Arts Endowment Is Defeated

The National Endowment for the Arts dodged another bullet last week, when the Senate rejected an attempt by conservative Republicans to eliminate federal support for the arts agency.

Sen. John Ashcroft, a Missouri Republican, had proposed stripping from a spending bill the $100-million that the Senate Appropriations Committee had recommended giving the arts endowment for fiscal 1999. He and other Republicans

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