Article: PBS Funding Restored

This wonderful article appears in today's edition of the Lexington Herald-Leader.

Look at what you guys did with the petition drive? One million progressives signed, and PBS just got $100 million in funding restored.

Now all we need to do is get Kenneth Tomlinson fired...

PBS funding restored
$100 MILLION BUDGET CUT HAD BEEN PROPOSED BY HOUSE

By Andrew Taylor
ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON - Big Bird and National Public Radio won a reprieve yesterday as the House restored $100 million that had been proposed as a budget cut for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The 284-140 vote demonstrated the enduring political strength of public broadcasting, whose supporters rallied behind popular programs such as Sesame Street, Postcards From Buster and The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer.

The Public Broadcasting Service undertook a high-profile campaign to rescind the proposed cut. Lawmakers were flooded with letters and phone calls.

The vote came as the House worked on a $142.5 billion spending bill for health, education and labor programs for the budget year beginning Oct. 1.

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