[NEohioPAL] Ask Your Representatives to Sign NEA Funding Letter

[Mary L. Davis]

The Congressional Arts Caucus and Senate Cultural Caucus are in the process
of collecting signatures of members of Congress who are supportive of funding
the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) at $170 million in the fiscal year
(FY) 2021. Please take two minutes to request that your U.S. Representative
and U.S. Senators sign onto the letter.

These "Dear Colleague" letters mean congressional appropriators have started
the cycle for the FY 2021 appropriations process. In each of the FY 2018, FY
2019, and FY 2020 cycles, the Trump administration sought to eliminate the
NEA; however, Congress strongly rejected that proposal on a bipartisan
basis each year, and actually increased NEA funding every year. In fact, FY
2020 saw the largest increase in funding for the NEA in six years and the
highest level of funding for the Endowment in a decade! This increase can be
attributed, in part, to the tremendous grassroots advocacy of arts advocates
last year.

This year, Americans for the Arts and our arts colleagues are urging Congress
to fund the NEA and the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) at a level
of $170 million for FY 2021. Currently, Congressional Arts Caucus Co-Chairs
Reps. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) and Elise Stefanik (R-NY) are leading the NEA
funding request letter in the U.S. House, and Senate Cultural Caucus Co-Chair
Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) is leading the NEA/NEH funding request letter in the
U.S. Senate. Take two minutes now to request that your Congressional leaders
sign onto the letters to show their support for the NEA and the arts in your
communities!

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T 202.371.2830
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T 212.223.2787
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info at artsusa.org
www.AmericansForTheArts.org
www.ArtsActionFund.org

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