{"id":8959,"date":"2011-03-18T13:03:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T17:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8959"},"modified":"2011-03-18T13:03:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T17:03:51","slug":"house-gop-votes-to-defund-pro-government-propaganda-outlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8959\/house-gop-votes-to-defund-pro-government-propaganda-outlet\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP Votes to Defund Pro-Government Propaganda Outlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many important votes the new House Republican caucus has taken includes yesterday\u2019s vote to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/us_politics\/view\/2011_0318house_nixes_funding_for_npr\/?utm_source=Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=Heritage%2BHotsheet\" target=\"_blank\">defund National Public Radio (NPR)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the bill is expected to die in a Democrat-controlled Senate, the measure puts a majority of House members on record as supporting the complete defunding of a government agency that unabashedly promotes pro-state liberalism.\u00a0 One of the hardest things to do in politics is get a majority of legislators to vote \u201cYes\u201d on something \u2013 especially when the bill has little chance of becoming law.<\/p>\n<p>But this group of House Republicans is different.\u00a0 These votes and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2011\/02\/18\/house-overwhelmingly-votes-to-scrap-plannned-parenthood-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\">others<\/a> are setting out clear distinctions between conservative and liberal spending priorities.\u00a0 In 2012, voters will know exactly how candidates prioritize taxpayer money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many important votes the new House Republican caucus has taken includes yesterday\u2019s vote to defund National Public Radio (NPR). While the bill is expected to die in a Democrat-controlled Senate, the measure puts a majority of House members on record as supporting the complete defunding of a government agency that unabashedly promotes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[841,70,59,1097,790,754,2459,61],"class_list":["post-8959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-elections","tag-budget","tag-deficit","tag-fiscal-conservative","tag-house-republicans","tag-liberalism","tag-national-public-radio","tag-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8959"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8964,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959\/revisions\/8964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}