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Tag Archives: House Appropriations Committee
September 30, 2011, 9:22 am
National Service, NPR Face New Challenges From House Republicans
House Republicans signaled Thursday that they will continue their budget wars against national-service programs and National Public Radio as Congress hammers out a 2012 federal spending plan.
The House Appropriations Committee issued draft legislation that would provide just $280-million in the next fiscal year to the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency that operates AmeriCorps and other national-service programs. It said some of the money should be used to continue the organization’s volunteer programs for older people and the rest to pay for “the orderly elimination of other programs.”
The national-service agency—which also manages the Social Innovation Fund, a grants program for effective nonprofits—has a budget of $1.08-billion this year.
House Republicans tried to kill the agency completely in 2011 budget negotiations, but the…
July 13, 2011, 2:04 pm
Arts Spending Cut as 2012 Federal Budget Work Begins
The House Appropriations Committee, which pushed for deep cuts in federal spending in 2011, is starting to signal which programs it hopes to trim in 2012.
Among the first casualties in the nonprofit world: spending on the arts.
The key Republican-led committee, which is now drafting a number of budget bills, on Tuesday adopted legislation that would reduce spending on the National Endowment for the Arts from just under $155-million in 2011 to $135-million next fiscal year.
Americans for the Arts, an advocacy group, complained that the 13-percent cut would be the biggest the agency had suffered in 16 years and was more severe than the 7-percent cut in overall spending outlined in the legislation, which also proposes budgets for the Departments of Interior and Environment and other agencies.
The arts agency—which provides money to states to distribute to theaters,…
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