Office of Congressional Affairs

The Office of Congressional Affairs serves as the Endowment’s liaison with Members of Congress and their staffs in D.C., state, and district offices. Its mission is to articulate how federal funding appropriated through Congress to NEH impacts constituents in every state, Congressional district and territory of the United States of America.

• House Appropriations: http://appropriations.house.gov/
• Senate Appropriations: http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/
• House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training: https://edlabor.house.gov/subcommittees/higher-education-and-workforce-investment-subcommittee
• Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP): http://www.help.senate.gov/

• House Subcommittee hearings and testimonies: https://edlabor.house.gov/subcommittees/higher-education-and-workforce-investment-subcommittee
• Senate HELP Committee Hearings page: http://www.help.senate.gov/hearings/

Testimony before the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee On the Interior, Enviroment and Related Agencies, April 10th, 2014

• Trent Clark, member of the Idaho Humanities Council board
• Peter Meinick, Founding Director of the Aquila Theatre Company
• Jesse Reising, Chairman and co-founder of the Warrior-Scholar Project
• Waddell W. Stillman, President of Historic Hudson Valley

Testimony before the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee On the Interior, Enviroment and Related Agencies, April 17th, 2013

• Steven Knapp, President of the George Washington University
• Michael Witmore, Director, Folger Shakespeare Library
• Ann Thompson, Oklahoma Humanities Council, and Board Member, Federations of State Humanities Councils
• Ford Bell, President of the American Alliance of Museums