The House Appropriations Committee sought to defund the Corporation for...
The House Appropriations Committee sought to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and NPR in its draft appropriations bill for FY 2013 (http://xrl.us/bng7we). The committee’s labor, health and human services and education appropriations bill would rescind $111.3 million of…
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CPB’s 2013 funding and slash another $222.5 million from the CPB’s funding for 2014. The bill mandates that no funds may be used to support NPR and seeks to end all CPB funding beginning in 2015. Public broadcasting funds had been cut 13 percent in the past two fiscal years, Association of Public Television Stations CEO Patrick Butler said in a news release (http://xrl.us/bng7yc). “This proposal flies in the face of the will of the American people, who routinely rank public broadcasting as one of the best investments the federal government makes and who overwhelmingly support our work and our public service mission, across the ideological spectrum.” The bill will be marked up by the House Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Related Agencies on Wednesday at 10 a.m. in Room 2358-C Rayburn. The full Appropriations Committee has not yet scheduled a markup of the bill, a committee spokeswoman told us.