Tag: Congress
Closing of news bureau leaves regrets, questions
There was no shortage of ideas for keeping Capitol News Connection afloat. CNC’s stock in trade was chasing down politicians for local legislators’ ...House vote would axe CPB in 2013
Last time, in 2005, the emissary to Congress was Clifford the Big Red Dog. This time, it’s an aardvark named Arthur. Last ...Public Broadcasting Act of 1967
Public Law 90-129, 90th Congress, November 7, 1967 (as amended to April 26, 1968) This law was enacted less than 10 months after ...Shadows in the corridors
The scene: a small conference room of the Senate Committee on Commerce, late on a February afternoon. The players: a senior committee staffer ...Wilbur Mills to LBJ: ‘We ain’t gonna give money to folks without some strings attached’
Congress doesn’t work that way, said Wilbur Mills, the formidable chair of the House Ways and Means Committee in the late 1960s. ...House votes 2 to 1 to restore CPB aid
A week of rallies, petitions, public service announcements and entreaties to Congress persuaded the House of Representatives to restore the $400 million ...On to the White House
The House and Senate resolved last-minute differences over public broadcasting’s fiscal 1991-93 authorization bill and late last week passed the three-year, $800 ...Educational Telecommunications: An Electronic Land Grant for the 21st Century
At the threshold of the new millennium, another Congress has the opportunity to allocate a portion of a precious national asset to ...House leader demands a plan; Senate backs higher numbers
Having emerged from the first 100 days of the 104th Congress with most of its advance funding intact, public broadcasting is entering ...Let’s privatize Congress!
It’s time to privatize Congress. The federal subsidy of this playground for the rich is bleeding American taxpayers and adding to the ...House committee approves independent program service for public TV
The House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday approved a public broadcasting funding bill that would create a separate program service for independent ...President Johnson asks Congress to aid public television, 1967
A month after the release of the first Carnegie Commission report, LBJ announced legislation to help pay for operations of public TV for ...
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