State Campaigns Federal Issues Help Self-Employed Workers After Disaster Strikes Recent disasters, including Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria and the wildfires in California, have underscored the need to support and strengthen our national recovery framework. In 2002, FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) wrote regulations that excluded... Request a Meeting with Your U.S. Representative! Simply enter your zip code in one of the designated boxes and then customize your invitation using the template we have provided as well as your own language specifying date, time, location and other logistics. Take Two Minutes To Support Charitable Giving On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed into law the largest tax reform bill in three decades. Unfortunately, the law (P.L 115-97) will have a very negative impact on charitable giving. Contact your member of Congress to convey your ongoing concerns with the final... Thank your legislators for state arts funding! Your legislators need to know that their constituents support the arts. In the 2017 legislative session, legislators supported increased arts funding. Please take five minutes to thank them for supporting the arts. Save the NEA Good news! On June 6, 2018, the U.S. House Appropriations Committee approved funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) at $155 million for FY 2019, a $2 million increase. On June 14th, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee matched that funding increase, also... Urge Congress to Cosponsor the CREATE Act On Arts Advocacy Day, Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) announced new legislation to strengthen the creative economy to a crowd of over 500 arts advocates. Entitled Comprehensive Resources for Entrepreneurs in the Arts to Transform the Economy (CREATE) Act (S.2648), the...
