At 6:10 p.m. last night, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the Arts Caucus Amendment to increase funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) by $10 million and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) by $3.5 million. The amendment passed by a vote of 241 to 185. By way of comparison, last year's votes were 225 to 200 with 35 Republicans voting FOR the Arts Caucus Amendment. This year, 48 Republicans voted for the amendment.

The House also defeated an amendment by Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) which would have decreased NEA funding by $60 million, by a vote of 313 to 112, identical to last year's vote.
Via Americans for the Arts