policy and advocacy

Congressional Arts Handbook - 2008

• Table of Contents/Legislative Planning Committee (pdf, 103KB)
• Directory of National CoSponsors
• Issue Briefs: FY 2009 Interior Appropriations (pdf, 148KB)
• National Endowment for the Arts
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• NEA/NEH FY 2008 Legislative Recap
• Relevant Congressional Committees
• Issue Briefs: FY 2009 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations (pdf, 127KB)
• Museum Funding through the Institute of Museum and Library Services
• Arts Education through the U.S. Department of Education
• Funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
• Relevant Congressional Committees
• Issue Briefs: Tax Policy (pdf, 69KB)
• Encouraging Charitable Gifts to Arts and Culture
• Artists’ Fair-Market Value Deduction Bills
• Relevant Congressional Committee
• Issue Briefs: Education Reauthorization (pdf, 106KB)
• Strengthen Arts Education in No Child Left Behind
• Relevant Congressional Committee
• Issue Briefs: International Issues (pdf, 106KB)
• Improving the Visa Process for Foreign Guest Artists
• Cultural Exchanges through the U.S. Department of State
• Relevant Congressional Committees
• Issue Briefs: Federal Communications Commission (pdf, 54KB)
• Protecting Performing Arts Technology
• Relevant Congressional Committees
• U.S. House of Representatives Voting Record/Senate Arts Support Record (pdf, 510KB)
• The House voting record includes votes on floor amendments on NEA funding, Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding, as well as membership in the Congressional Arts Caucus, signatory status of the 2007 Arts in Education and NEA sign-on letters, and co-sponsorship of the artists tax deduction bill. The Senate has taken no up-or-down floor votes on amendments exclusively affecting the arts since 2000. In the absence of a detailed voting record, this section of the 2008 Congressional Arts Handbook recognizes certain Senators who have exercised arts leadership in a variety of other ways.
• Facts and Figures/Field at a Glance (pdf, 3.4MB)
• Latest research measuring the impact of the arts and arts education
• "Field at a Glance" Trend information on various arts fields and specific disciplines
• Directories of the Congressional Arts Caucus and Senate Cultural Caucus (pdf, 69KB)
• U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate Contact Information (pdf, 120KB)
• Includes Arts Staffers, Education Staffers, and Schedulers