GOP to force vote on NPR defunding
House Republicans announced Wednesday they plan to force a floor vote on defunding NPR in response to the firing of analyst Juan Williams last month.
House GOP Whip Eric Cantor (Va.) and Rep. Doug Lamborn (Colo.) stated that slicing funds to the publicly subsidized news organization was the winner of the conference’s weekly “YouCut” contest, in which the public votes on-line on spending items they want eliminated.
“When NPR executives made the decision to unfairly terminate Juan Williams and to then disparage him afterwards, the bias of their organization was exposed,” the two Republicans stated in a statement. “Make no mistake, it is not the role of government to tell news organizations how to operate. What is avoidable, however, is providing taxpayer funds to news organizations that promote a partisan point of view. Eliminating taxpayer funding for NPR is precisely the kind of commonsense cut that we have to start making if we want to fundamentally modify the way business is conducted in Washington.”
Republicans had indicated that they sought to take action against NPR after it dismissed Williams for making controversial remarks about Muslims.
Under the “YouCut” program, the GOP has promised to force votes on spending cuts chosen by on-line voters each week the House is in session. Each week, a series of proposed spending cuts is posted on-line and the House GOP takes up the cut chosen by the most voters.
The NPR defunding defeated the termination of “Exchanges with Historic Whaling and Trading Partners Program” and the Presidential Election Fund.
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) has stated he will introduce legislation to defund NPR in the upper chamber.
NPR operates using both private and public money, though most of its revenue comes from non-public sources.
source : thehill.com
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