House Panel Would Cut $20 Million from NEH Budget

A House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee on Thursday announced appropriations that would provide $20 million less to the National Endowment for the Humanities in the 2012 fiscal year than the agency is receiving this year. The measure would allocate $135 million to the NEH, which would represent a reduction of 13 percent -- nearly double what the House panel proposed to cut from the Interior Department and other agencies covered by the spending legislation. I