Advocacy
Artists-Museum Partnership Act
The Artists-Museum Partnership Act now has a record number of supporters in the Senate--thirty--most recently Senator Barack Obama (D-IL). Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has long been a cosponsor. Eighty-eight members in the House of Representatives support the bill, which surpasses previous support.The National Endowment for the Humanities released a report in September 2007 that had been requested by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Robert Bennett (R-UT). The report details the need for and likely effect of the bill. It is available for download.
Efforts now focus on getting the bill included in a larger piece of tax legislation, because small provisions such as the artist bill always are enacted as part of a package of tax measures. There is no fixed schedule for consideration of tax measures, nor any guarantee that President George W. Bush will sign them.