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Article: GOP calls for end to CPB funding; Study group seeks ways to fund Katrina relief.(TV Currents)(Corporation for Public Broadcasting )
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- TelevisionWeek
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- September 26, 2005
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Byline: Doug Halonen
Threatening to yank public broadcasting's federal purse strings, House Republicans last week proposed to eliminate federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting as part of an initiative to help the government pay for the mammoth recovery costs associated with Hurricane Katrina.
""Congress must ensure that a catastrophe of nature does not become a catastrophe of debt for our children and grandchildren,'' said Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., chairman of the House Republican Study Committee.
The committee, representing more than 100 conservative GOP lawmakers, recommended in a report last week that public broadcasters ...