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 They voted that $5 million be rescinded from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.