On Tuesday night, Congress released the details of its massive FY 2014 Omnibus spending bill. A petition circulated by the Arts Action Fund, signed by more than 40,000 arts advocates, reinforced the need to allocate a robust fund to the National Endowment for the Arts. The agency has been budgeted to receive $146 million for the year.

The United States House of Representatives Appropriations Committee recently released the 2014 Interior Appropriations bill, which proposes deep cuts to both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.