Joint Hearing on the National Endowment for the Arts: Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth, and Families of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session, Hearing Held in Washington, DC, May 13, 1997, Volume 4 |
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... majority leader and Mr. Houghton go any further here , let me see if we can put limitations on the barter or exchange that was going on . Mr. Majority Leader , it's very good to have you here this morning . And in deference to your ...
... majority leader and Mr. Houghton go any further here , let me see if we can put limitations on the barter or exchange that was going on . Mr. Majority Leader , it's very good to have you here this morning . And in deference to your ...
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... majority leader . I just want to welcome him back to the committee that he served on for a number of years and tell him that I'm still a big - spending liberal . So I have $ 20 . [ Laughter . ] Mr. Clay . Thirty - eight cents of it ...
... majority leader . I just want to welcome him back to the committee that he served on for a number of years and tell him that I'm still a big - spending liberal . So I have $ 20 . [ Laughter . ] Mr. Clay . Thirty - eight cents of it ...
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... majority leader for being here today and testifying . And the banter in the question and answering period has reinforced why I miss you on this Committee . It was a lot more fun when you were here , although the last three years we have ...
... majority leader for being here today and testifying . And the banter in the question and answering period has reinforced why I miss you on this Committee . It was a lot more fun when you were here , although the last three years we have ...
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... majority leader , I will not schedule an NEA authorization bill for floor consideration that would violate our agreement of a 2 - year , $ 99 million per year phase - out . " So I am assuming , sir , that that remains your position . Mr ...
... majority leader , I will not schedule an NEA authorization bill for floor consideration that would violate our agreement of a 2 - year , $ 99 million per year phase - out . " So I am assuming , sir , that that remains your position . Mr ...
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... majority do have , which means that if you include the 5 territories and commonwealths , we have 540 districts . And certainly 540 , 143 is a small fraction , about 20 percent of them . I don't expect to change anybody's mind whose mind ...
... majority do have , which means that if you include the 5 territories and commonwealths , we have 540 districts . And certainly 540 , 143 is a small fraction , about 20 percent of them . I don't expect to change anybody's mind whose mind ...
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Page 59 - I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
Page 405 - Government; (2) that a high civilization must not limit its efforts to science and technology alone but must give full value and support to the other great branches of man's scholarly and cultural activity...
Page 168 - BUT if art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen...
Page 403 - Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Page 404 - Arts is to foster the excellence, diversity, and vitality of the arts in the United States and to help broaden the availability and appreciation of such excellence, diversity, and vitality.
Page 197 - Pursuant to clause 2(g)(4) of the Rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives, the...
Page 397 - The encouragement and support of national progress and scholarship in the humanities and the arts, while primarily a matter for private and local initiative, are also appropriate matters of concern to the Federal Government.
Page 86 - You mentioned economic freedom. Does the writer need it? FAULKNER: No. The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper. I've never known anything good in writing to come from having accepted any free gift of money. The good writer never applies to a foundation. He's too busy writing something. If he isn't first rate he fools himself by saying he hasn't got time or economic freedom. Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are...
Page 59 - The arts and sciences essential to the prosperity of the state, and to the ornament and happiness of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind.
Page 223 - If you need any further information, please feel free to contact me.