The lobbying group Americans for the Arts today will ask Congress for a $45 million increase in the annual appropriation for the National Endowment for the Arts, reports the New York Times.

The request, which comes as part of the group’s 22nd annual Arts Advocacy Day, would increase the endowment from $155 million to $200 million. Americans for the Arts previously requested an increase to $176 million, which would have matched the amount that the NEA was given in 1992, at the peak of its financing, but the group believes that arts institutions have a greater need for funding this year.

Singers Linda Ronstadt and Josh Groban and the jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis are scheduled to testify before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies today, and one-third of Congress will meet with an expected 500 arts advocates.