{"id":7901,"date":"2016-07-08T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanorchestras.org\/?p=7901"},"modified":"2021-02-25T18:42:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T18:42:03","slug":"federal-funding-your-summer-homework-with-elected-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanorchestras.org\/federal-funding-your-summer-homework-with-elected-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal funding: your summer homework with elected officials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>July 8, 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given that this is an election year, the House and Senate are taking a&nbsp;<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/americanorchestras.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2016CalendarOfOpportunities.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">long summer recess<\/a><\/strong> (PDF), which makes&nbsp;the prospects uncertain for the federal budget to be completed. Bills that are of importance to the orchestra community are on the move, and here is the latest on where things stand for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/americanorchestras.org\/advocate\/contact-congress-today\/?vvsrc=%2fcampaigns%2f39064%2frespond\">Cultural Exchange<\/a>:&nbsp;<\/strong>The House Subcommittee has recommended $112 million in FY17 for the U.S. Department of State&#8217;s&nbsp;Office of Citizen Exchanges, which administers&nbsp;arts, sports, youth, and other exchanges. The Senate is further along in its process, with&nbsp;the&nbsp;Appropriations Committee having just approved $107.69 million, a more modest increase above the FY16 level.&nbsp;In its report language accompanying the funding recommendation, Senate Appropriators&nbsp;made special mention of youth orchestras:<br><br><em>Citizen Exchange Programs<\/em>-The Committee encourages the Secretary of State to support, from funds provided for Citizen Exchange programs, exchanges for youth orchestra and other musical ensembles administered by the Youth Programs Division in coordination with the Cultural Programs Division.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that this is an election year, the House and Senate are taking a long summer recess, which makes the prospects uncertain for the federal budget to be completed. 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