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Forwarded from PUBLHIST by Tom Wheaton
Washington Update - Vol. 1, #9
Feb 23, 1995
by Page Putnam Miller
Director of the National Coordinating Committee
for the Promotion of History [log in to unmask]>
Update on NEH - On February 22 the House Appropriations
Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies voted on rescissions
to the FY'95 budget. They voted that $5 million be rescinded from
the unobligated funds in the FY'95 $177 million budget for NEH that
went into effect on October 1, 1994. Representative Sidney Yates
(D-IL) proposed an amendment to rescind only $1 million. That
amendment was defeated along a party line vote. The message from the
Republicans on the committee seemed to be that supporters of NEH
should accept the $5 million cut for that amount could well be
increased when the subcommittee recommendation goes to the House
Appropriations Committee and then on the floor of the House for a
vote.
This vote of the House Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
is the first of many steps in a long process that will finally
determine the future of NEH. Three separate issues -- FY'95
rescissions, reauthorization legislation, and FY'96 budgets -- will
all be considered by House and Senate subcommittees, then full
committees, then floor votes. And if House and Senate versions
differ, then Conference Committees will determine compromise
language that will then have to go back to the House and Senate for
votes. We are thus at the beginning of a very long process, with
many steps, which has a deadline for completion of September 30,
when the 1996 budget is to go into effect.
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