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House Votes to Defund NPR
NRO ^ | 3/17/11 | Daniel Foster

Posted on 03/17/2011 9:28:16 AM PDT by xtinct

The House just voted 236-181 to remove federal funding for National Public Radio via the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 112th; air; cpb; cpr; defundnpr; federalspending; leftwing; liberalagenda; liberalmedia; msm; npr; nprdefunded; pubic; vote
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To: xtinct
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21 posted on 03/17/2011 9:36:08 AM PDT by mojitojoe (In itÂ’s 1400 years of existence, Islam has 2 main accomplishments, psychotic violence and goat curr)
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To: xtinct

What about PBS and Pacifica?


22 posted on 03/17/2011 9:36:32 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: DonkeyBonker
Anbyone have suggestions for a new name?

Not Peoples Radio

23 posted on 03/17/2011 9:36:50 AM PDT by Cowman (How can the IRS seize property without a warrant if the 4th amendment still stands?)
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To: xtinct

Doesn’t mean jack. Senate will NOT pass it. If they truly had any cojones at all they would have put it in the CR.


24 posted on 03/17/2011 9:37:16 AM PDT by Grunthor (hcg diet, down 30 lbs in 4 weeks)
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To: livius
"leftist rants like “All Things Considered”

All Liberal Things Considered.

25 posted on 03/17/2011 9:38:22 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: xtinct
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SWEET!

26 posted on 03/17/2011 9:38:43 AM PDT by airborne (Paratroopers - Good to the last drop!)
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To: Grunthor

Yup, then let the dems be the ones who shut down the gov...


27 posted on 03/17/2011 9:39:09 AM PDT by refermech
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To: xtinct

And yet it will be funded by the CR they will passed yesterday and another in 3 weeks. People can’t see the forst for the trees.


28 posted on 03/17/2011 9:40:20 AM PDT by Sybeck1 (Memphis and the Midsouth miss you, Bad Dog)
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To: xtinct

It’ll be voted down in the Senate, like everything else.


29 posted on 03/17/2011 9:41:28 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (The pendulum is swinging back.)
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To: mojitojoe

The ‘public’ radio and TV stations are able to offer tax deduct-ability for contributions. I think this is supposed to go hand in hand with not carrying commercial advertising. But to me it seems like they have crossed the line into advertising, thus should lose the tax exempt status. Best for them to be entirely cut loose and operate under the same rules as commercial stations.


30 posted on 03/17/2011 9:42:14 AM PDT by Voltage
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To: Grunthor

Exactly! bttt


31 posted on 03/17/2011 9:43:06 AM PDT by Matchett-PI ("Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Tax " ~ Gagdad Bob)
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To: samtheman

Happy St. Paddy’s day! Double.


32 posted on 03/17/2011 9:43:11 AM PDT by juliej
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To: xtinct

snicker, snicker


33 posted on 03/17/2011 9:43:35 AM PDT by bgill (Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: GeronL

O will come back and say if you want to defund NPR, then I will defund the Army, Navy, Airforce, etc.


34 posted on 03/17/2011 9:44:18 AM PDT by oldtimer (uee)
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To: xtinct

Michelle Bachmann was on local radio here in MN this morning...please tell me this bill cuts ALL NPR funding, not just redirects it to ‘certain’ NPR programming.


35 posted on 03/17/2011 9:44:18 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: xtinct

Ernie and Bert aren't going to take this lying down!

36 posted on 03/17/2011 9:45:24 AM PDT by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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To: DonkeyBonker

Pravda is already taken.


37 posted on 03/17/2011 9:46:07 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (What's "My Struggle" in Kenyan?)
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To: Grunthor
Doesn’t mean jack. Senate will NOT pass it. If they truly had any cojones at all they would have put it in the CR.

I believe you are correct. As far as I know the only way the House alone can cut off NPR is to remove the appropriation from the budget, the Senate cannot put it back in.

38 posted on 03/17/2011 9:46:52 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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To: xtinct

Does this have to go to the Senate also or can they just defund it?


39 posted on 03/17/2011 9:48:44 AM PDT by nikos1121 (Worst president in my lifetime by far..... Hoping for -24 today.)
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To: BJClinton
Aww, our tax dollars won’t fund a Dem spin machine.

Not to worry, they will always have the mediocre alphabet channels to do it.

40 posted on 03/17/2011 9:49:15 AM PDT by Bitsy ( i)
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