Republican Push To Defund NPR Fails

[Nonno]

"The Republican campaign to take away all federal funding from National Public Radio (NPR) was over before it began, with GOP lawmakers' procedural trick to force a vote on the issue failing on Thursday. It was the first GOP-ordered House vote since the election.

The proposal to defund NPR was the latest winning item on the Republicans' gimmicky YouCut site, which allows the public to pick the cuts they would like to see receive an up-or-down vote on the House floor. In order to get these votes, they try to make a procedural vote on an unrelated piece of legislation the vote on the YouCut item.

"This week's winning YouCut proposal is sponsored by Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO), and would terminate all taxpayer funding of National Public Radio (NPR), saving taxpayers potentially tens of millions of -- perhaps even over a hundred million -- dollars," read a release from Rep. Eric Cantor's (R-Va.) office. "Implementing this initiative would signal that the days of bailing out irresponsible decision-makers at taxpayers' expense are over.

Democrats easily scuttled the GOP maneuver on Thursday, voting 239-171 to close debate on the underlying measure and move on, without voting on the NPR proposal."

Full article here.

 

[ImnoMensa]

"The Republican campaign to take away all federal funding from National Public Radio (NPR) was over before it began, with GOP lawmakers' procedural trick to force a vote on the issue failing on Thursday. It was the first GOP-ordered House vote since the election.

The proposal to defund NPR was the latest winning item on the Republicans' gimmicky YouCut site, which allows the public to pick the cuts they would like to see receive an up-or-down vote on the House floor. In order to get these votes, they try to make a procedural vote on an unrelated piece of legislation the vote on the YouCut item.

"This week's winning YouCut proposal is sponsored by Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO), and would terminate all taxpayer funding of National Public Radio (NPR), saving taxpayers potentially tens of millions of -- perhaps even over a hundred million -- dollars," read a release from Rep. Eric Cantor's (R-Va.) office. "Implementing this initiative would signal that the days of bailing out irresponsible decision-makers at taxpayers' expense are over.

Democrats easily scuttled the GOP maneuver on Thursday, voting 239-171 to close debate on the underlying measure and move on, without voting on the NPR proposal."

Full article here.

We will have to wait and see if they can scuttle it after the new Majority takes over.

 

[Pete]

Eh, they will probably ax it later

 

[hvp05]

If Rs never brought it up they'd be branded hypocrites. So who cares?

Leave it to Lefties to consider people interacting with their representatives "gimmicky".

 

[aps45819]

great, the government needs to have it's own radio station

 

[Rommey]

It was the first GOP-ordered House vote since the election.

When did the GOP get in charge of the House for them to order a vote? Isn't Granny Botox still running the joint until January?

 

[Pete]

If the donks would have allowed that funding to stop going to a friggin radio station they could have paid for part of that unemployment insurance extension.

Democrats don't care about the unemployed!

 

[PsyOps]

"The Republican campaign to take away all federal funding from National Public Radio (NPR) was over before it began, with GOP lawmakers' procedural trick to force a vote on the issue failing on Thursday. It was the first GOP-ordered House vote since the election.

The proposal to defund NPR was the latest winning item on the Republicans' gimmicky YouCut site, which allows the public to pick the cuts they would like to see receive an up-or-down vote on the House floor. In order to get these votes, they try to make a procedural vote on an unrelated piece of legislation the vote on the YouCut item.

"This week's winning YouCut proposal is sponsored by Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO), and would terminate all taxpayer funding of National Public Radio (NPR), saving taxpayers potentially tens of millions of -- perhaps even over a hundred million -- dollars," read a release from Rep. Eric Cantor's (R-Va.) office. "Implementing this initiative would signal that the days of bailing out irresponsible decision-makers at taxpayers' expense are over.

Democrats easily scuttled the GOP maneuver on Thursday, voting 239-171 to close debate on the underlying measure and move on, without voting on the NPR proposal."

Full article here.

Come Feb or Mar what will you being copy/pasting about this when they push the bill through again, but pass it? This was just a taste of what's to come noknow. So of course it was a procedural trick.

 

[MMDad]

without voting on the NPR proposal.

Such courage from the donks! Way to be decisive there, Madame Botox and her handmaiden Princess Steny.

In other words, they didn't have the courage to actually vote no on the bill, since that would make them accountable to their constituents. Instead they left the bill alive, ready to be voted on in January.

Looks like they do want it to pass, just not today. Maybe they're too busy draining the swamp?