A bill that would zero out funding for the Corporation for...
A bill that would zero out funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CD July 18 p14) starting in FY 2015 was approved Wednesday by the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services. The subcommittee’s funding bill for…
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FY 2013 was approved 8-6, a House Appropriations Committee spokeswoman said. The bill rescinds $111.3 million of CPB’s 2013 funding and its $222.5 million advanced appropriation for FY 2014, it said. The bill includes $150 billion in discretionary funding and also includes provisions to stop the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and cuts to labor, health and education programs, the subcommittee said. The legislation “represents a clear step toward returning to fiscal responsibility, while still ensuring that funding for critical and high-priority programs are maintained,” Subcommittee Chairman Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., said in opening statements. Public broadcasting has a fight on its hands, said Pat Butler, president of the Association of Public Television Stations. “We thought we had made a pretty good case with the chairman and his office, so to see this severe set of cuts was quite an unpleasant surprise for us.” Some progress has been made “with respect to restoring bipartisan consensus in favor of public broadcasting,” Butler said: But “there are still too many people who'd like to see funding go away."