Some Republicans in Congress are pushing an effort that would cut more than $115 million from PBS and NPR, the
Boston Globe reports. On a party-line vote this week, the House subcommittee
that oversees public TV funding approved the cut, which would slice the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's budget by 23 percent to $380 million. A similar move last year was thwarted after
aggressive lobbying from PBS and congressional Democrats. ''We've got to keep our priorities straight," says Rep. Ralph Regula (R.-Ohio). "You're going to choose between giving a little more money to
handicapped children versus providing appropriations for public broadcasting." Counters Massachusetts Democrat Ed Markey: ''The Republicans have decided to go hunting for 'Big Bird' and 'Clifford the
Big Red Dog' once again . . . PBS is right at the top of their hit list--always has been and always will be, until they can destroy it."
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