Posted on 09/23/2009 6:20:47 PM PDT by Palin Republic
Press release from U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senates Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee:
Enzi Leads GOP HELP Committee Inquiry Into Alleged NEA Political Activity
WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senates Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today led his fellow Republican HELP Committee members in requesting an explanation regarding possible violations of federal law at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Enzi and his colleagues sent the request to NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman.
In the letter delivered today the Senators questioned the possibility of taxpayer dollars to engage in lobbying activities to promote the Presidents health care legislative agenda and other legislative priorities during several August conference calls with NEA grant recipients and community stakeholders.
The letter also raises serious questions regarding how the NEAs participation in these calls may have violated federal criminal restrictions on lobbying Congress, the Hatch Act, appropriations restrictions on spending funds for such purposes and possible contradictions with the entitys mission under its authorizing statute.
The promotion to NEA grant recipients of topics that are at the top of the Presidents legislative agenda and urging a call to action creates a serious conflict of interest, wrote the Senators.
The full text of the letter to Landesman is below:
(Excerpt) Read more at bighollywood.breitbart.com ...
At this rate, Glenn Beck is going to have some good competition for best scalp-filled trophy case.
Just defund it.
This will be called a right wing smear attack on the arts. Because the right is so divisive and anti-obama they are looking at ways to destroy the Presidents agenda.
So as the looney left continues to break the law to support their President’s wacked out far left anti-american agenda, it is becoming increasingly obvious that they want a totalitarian government control. God save us all.
this is something we really need to cut...plain old waste
bttt
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