Political Quotes

“I appreciate the gentlewoman's courtesy and her advocacy here. I just finished listening to my friend from Colorado, and he gets it half right. First of all, it is ironic that the new Republican majority, having been touted on the floor for its openness, did, in fact, rush this to the floor without the 72-hour notice, not any substantive committee work. If it had been subjected to careful committee analysis, the flaws in the argument would have been revealed. It is not going to save a single penny of taxpayer dollars, not one, even in the unlikely event that this legislation passed through Congress, which it won't. It won't defund NPR. NPR will exist. And those of us who are in Cleveland or New York or Los Angeles or Washington, D.C., will be able to enjoy it, although it will be diminished a little bit. But what it do is hammer small rural American stations, small town and rural America, where it is more expensive to broadcast and where they rely on this funding to be able to purchase the programs. It would not just hammer NPR, but it would deny them the ability to use the funds for that subversive show ``Prairie Home Companion,'' for ``This American Life,'' for the car guys. It would prohibit them from purchasing locally produced content from other public broadcasting stations. This is lunacy. It unravels a carefully crafted partnership that has delivered year after year.…”