Democrats fret it could be curtains for local theaters without federal funds

Bonamici tried to appeal to Republicans by offering a fiscal argument. 

“It supports the local economy,” she said, highlighting local theaters in her home state, Oregon, that spread business to shops and restaurants in town. “It really is an economic issue, as well as an issue of what it means to our community to be able to sit together and to laugh and to cry and to ask questions and to be together.”