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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 201
115TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 115-144
JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF
2017
AUGUST 3, 2017.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. BARRASSO, from the Committee on Environment and Public
Works, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 1359]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Environment and Public Works, to which was
referred the bill (S. 1359) to amend the John F. Kennedy Center
Act to authorize appropriations for the John F. Kennedy Center for
the Performing Arts, and for other purposes, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill do pass.
GENERAL STATEMENT AND BACKGROUND
In 1958, President Eisenhower signed the National Cultural Cen-
ter Act (Pub. L. 85-874) into law, which established the National
Cultural Center. In 1968, a bill (Pub. L. 88-260) was enacted to re-
name the performing arts center as the John F. Kennedy Center
for the Performing Arts (Kennedy Center), which established the
center as a living memorial in honor of the late president. The Ken-
nedy Center has been reauthorized on a regular basis.
The Kennedy Center was designed by Edward Durrell Stone. In
1965, President Lyndon Johnson broke ground on a site located
along the banks of the Potomac River. In 1971, the building opened
to its first visitors. Today, the Kennedy Center is the nation's busi-
est performing arts center. Each year, it hosts approximately 3,000
events and receives over 2 million visitors.
The Kennedy Center's authorizing statute requires that des-
ignated Members of Congress provide full and appropriate over-
sight over the federal funding it receives. Designated Members of
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