I join with my colleagues here today in respectfully requesting that this committee allocate $180 million to the Nationa...
This is and has been and will continue to be a priority, and we really appreciate that, Ms. Slaughter.
In last year's budget, you proposed and promoted fully funding the 50 percent federal match for the States programs.
I really appreciated the subcommittee doing that, a number of steps going on.
They are increasingly looking at aesthetics and music and so on in terms of the healing of returning wounded warriors.
It is our values and principles more than our military might which, of course, will enhance our own national security.
This great Nation needs, deserves, and must support art as do other nations around the globe.
Thank you very much, Madam Chairwoman. That was a superb statement and consistent with the insight that you have provide...
But I am compelled today to ask that you take into consideration the returns we get on our investment in the arts.
Very well done, Mr. Chairman, in your first appearance. I hope there are going to be many, and we look forward to seeing...
I want to make it clear for the record, what you did was to enable people who are currently employed in large part to be...
As far as I am concerned, since this is very much a matter of leveraging, it would be unfortunate to enable the States t...
Because we have other witnesses, this is not going to be as long as I wish it could be, because this is one of the most ...
I join with my colleague about the support for orphans in Haiti.
this is what gives the Federal Government a bad name because people look at this and they go this makes no sense to me.
I am concerned that we might not be heading in the best of directions.
It causes us to think about ourselves as a people, what kind of people we have been, what kind of people we are and want...
But your request is for a reduction, and yet your initiative is to create jobs all over the country, new jobs, jobs that...
