In his State of the Union address, President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a National Foundation on the Arts, but he didn’t mention a similar foundation for the humanities. S. 1483 was an administration bill introduced by Senator Claiborne Pell (D-RI) and referred to the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee. Pell collaborated with Representative William S. Moorhead (D-PA) to sponsors bills in both chambers creating a National Foundation on the Humanities. Moorhead’s House bill gained 87 co-sponsors. This companion Senate bill, S. 316, introduced by Pell on January 7, 1965, had 32 co-sponsors.