It was supposed to be their day to lobby, but actors Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin were booted off the Congressional schedule Tuesday, so that members might try to avoid a government shutdown.
Instead the duo popped by the Arts Advocacy Day breakfast and gave a sampling of the remarks they planned to make before Congress in front of a room full of grassroots arts advocates. (We’re told that Baldwin made the obligatory I’m-going-to-compare-Charlie-Sheen-to-Congressional-staff joke, getting big laughs.) Spacey and Baldwin were to testify before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior, asking Congress to maintain the current levels of funding for the National Endowment of the Arts.
Also as part of his visit, Spacey spent Monday visiting the troops at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and also took a Capital Bikeshare bike for a spin, tweeting a picture of himself on the red bicycle in front of the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue.
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