National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman Jim Leech in a speech to the College Art Association on February 9 that his agency recognizes the case for trimming federal spending, but is deeply concerned at proposals to totally eliminate federal cultural institutions like NEH and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Mark Warner (D-VA) ask the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to conduct a study of the state of humanistic and social scientific scholarship and education.