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Pete Sessions: I believe it was Senator Helms yesterday who talked about substantial grants being given to Harvard University, which…

On the recordSeptember 16, 1997
I believe it was Senator Helms yesterday who talked about substantial grants being given to Harvard University, which has an endowment of over $6 billion, I believe, and Yale University. Does the Senator know if those figures are correct? Are there universities, let me ask, in Arkansas who could use funding from the National Endowment for the Arts equally as those great universities?
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Pete Sessions
Republican · Texas

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Questioning funding disparities for universities during a discussion on grants.

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