Political Quotes

“CPB is funded by a 2-year advance appropriation, and this year Congress will provide CPB funding for the fiscal year 2000. In the 104th Congress, the House Committee on Appropriations provided only $240 million for CPB in fiscal year 1998. However, $10 million was added back in conference, and now in the 105th, the Committee on Appropriations has increased funding for CPB in fiscal year 2000 from $250 to $300 million. The CPB funding bill has come before the floor during this week and I have reintroduced my amendment to terminate funding for CPB. At a time when we are trying to balance the budget, we must eliminate agencies like the CPB, and I am not exclusively targeting CPB. We must reduce or eliminate much of the Washington bureaucracy. For the past 4 years the Republicans have continually reduced funding for CPB. For fiscal year 1996 the appropriation was $275 million; 1997, $260 million; 1998, $250 million.”