From: mjm <mmoynihan-AT-wi.rr.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:34:45 -0500 To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] House subcommittee voted yesterday to --Apple-Mail-4-52994090 charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Jun 12, 2006, at 5:22 PM, Sandy Barton wrote: > Umm. Anyone actually look at the article cited? It's a year old. > Public Broadcasting Targeted By House > Panel Seeks to End CPB's Funding Within 2 Years > By Paul Farhi > Washington Post Staff Writer > Friday, June 10, 2005; Page A01 Sorry, wrong link. This one says basically the same thing, just one year later (as in "now") As they say, the more things change...: --Apple-Mail-4-52994090 charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed GOP takes aim at PBS funding House panel backs budget reductions By Rick Klein, Globe Staff =A0|=A0 June 8, 2006 WASHINGTON -- House Republicans yesterday revived their efforts to slash funding for public broadcasting, as a key committee approved a $115 million reduction in the budget for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that could force the elimination of some popular PBS and NPR programs. On a party-line vote, the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees health and education funding approved the cut to the budget for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which distributes money to=20 the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio. It would reduce the corporation's budget by 23 percent next year, to $380 million, in a cut that Republicans said was necessary to rein in government spending. The reduction, which would come in the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, must be approved by the full Appropriations Committee, and then the full House and Senate, before it could take effect. Democrats and public broadcasting advocates began planning efforts to reverse the cut. A similar move last year by Republican leaders was turned back in a fierce lobbying campaign launched by Public Broadcasting Service stations and Democratic members of Congress, in a debate that was colored by some Republicans' frustration with what they see as a liberal slant in public programming. To read the entire story online: http://tinyurl.com/eppff or another, similar article: http://tinyurl.com/mp7sc --Apple-Mail-4-52994090 _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Admin interface: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org Archives: http://www.driftline.org --Apple-Mail-4-52994090--
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