Tom Harkin: “If the Senator from Missouri would like, I am sure that we could sign him up for People For the American Way, and he…”

“If the Senator from Missouri would like, I am sure that we could sign him up for People For the American Way, and he could get the correct information as to what is going on and not the false information that he got from the so-called Christian Coalition. And so again the Senator from Missouri has brought up something that simply has no basis in fact. And I have here again, Mr. President, a letter dated March 17, 1997, from Karen Christensen, general counsel of the National Endowment for the Arts. It is written to Mr. Curtis White. I will not read the whole thing. It just said here: The progress report which you filed with this agency erroneously included 'Blood of Mugwump' as among those volumes partially supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts; this is not the case. In any future publications, including promotional materials and reprints of FC2 volumes, please remove any reference to the National Endowment for the Arts from any publication which is not supported by an NEA grant. I would appreciate prompt attention to this matter.”