US Senate approves $7 million increase in budget for the National Endowment for the Arts. It’s the first funding increase in eight years. – Washington Post (Reuters) 10/06/00
- DETAILS of Congressional funding for America’s cultural institutions (including money to build an exhibit at the National zoo for farm animals? “This will raise the lowly mule, chicken and pig to the same status as the zoo’s celebrated cheetahs and mountain lions.”) – Washington Post 10/06/00