n.p.r.? up %. since 000, n.p.r. audience is up 58%. 5.7 million unique monthly visitors to the website, up more than five million. this is a reflection of the quality of its program and dedication to its mission. public broadcasting helps educate our society, celebrates the arts, education, respectful debate, and civil discourse. n.p.r. and the 900-plus local stations are a valuable resource for our country. i urge my colleagues to stand up for public broadcasting and oppose this legislation. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california reserves the balance of her time. the gentlelady from tennessee. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. speaker. i would like to take just a moment and since the previous speaker talked a little bit about n.p.r. and its listening audience. i would like to make certain that the record reflects a little bit about that listening audience. we know that more men than women listen to n.p.r. except for the classical music which is 48% female. baby boomers are a big part of

n.p.r.? up %. since 000, n.p.r. audience is up 58%. 5.7 million unique monthly visitors to the website, up more than five million. this is a reflection of the quality of its program and dedication to its ission. public broadcasting helps educatour society, celebrates the arts, education, respectful debate, and civil discourse. n.p.r. and the 900-plus local stations are a valuable resource for our country. i urge my colleagues to stand up for public broadcasting and oppose this legislation. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california reserves the balance of her time. the gentlelady from tennessee. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. speaker. i would like to take just a moment and since the preous speaker talked a little bit about n.p.r. and its listening audience. i would like to make certain that the record reflects a little bit about that listening audience. we know that more men than women listen to n.p.r. except for the classical music which is 48% female. baby boors are a big part of their a

n.p.r.? up %. since 000, n.p.r. audience is up 58%. 5.7 million unique monthly visitors to the website, up more than five million. this is a reflection of the quality of its program and dedication to its mission. public broadcasting helps educate our society, celebrates the arts, education, respectful debate, and civil discourse. n.p.r. and the 900-plus local stations are a valuable resource for our country. i urge my colleagues to stand up for public broadcasting and oppose this legislation. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california reserves the balance of her time. the gentlelady from tennessee. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. speaker. i would like to take just a moment and since the previous speaker talked a little bit about n.p.r. and its listening audience. i would like to make certain that the record reflects a little bit about that listening audience. we know that more men than women listen to n.p.r. except for the classical music which is 48% female. baby boomers are a big part of

n.p.r.? up %. since 000, n.p.r. audience is up 58%. 5.7 million unique monthly visitors to the website, up more than five million. this is a reflection of the quality of its program and dedication to its mission. public broadcasting helps educate our society, celebrates the arts, education, respectful debate, and civil discourse. n.p.r. and the 900-plus local stations are a valuable resource for our country. i urge my colleagues to stand up for public broadcasting and oppose this legislation. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california reserves the balance of her time. the gentlelady from tennessee. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. speaker. i would like to take just a moment and since the previous speaker talked a little bit about n.p.r. and its listening audience. i would like to make certain that the record reflects a little bit about that listening audience. we know that more men than women listen to n.p.r. except for the classical music which is 48% female. baby boomers are a big part of

n.p.r. for the public radio station has become the center of attention for all the wrong reasons and we want to know about the money issue should n.p.r. stop receiving federal funding have a debate then the list is out giving out the who's who of billionaires we'll have details on who made the forbes list and how it's a huge sign of the disparity between social classes only continues to grow then deaths are on the rise in afghanistan as a u.n. report states the last year was the deadliest for afghan civilians find out how this plays into our strategy of winning hearts and minds and is the d.d.a. playing politics when it comes to marijuana we'll tell you about a move by the feds that would benefit big pharmaceutical companies while keeping all other marijuana users hanging out to dry details on all that and more but first let's move on to our top story. republican peter king has no problem sharing his views on the dangers of muslims in america and tomorrow he takes his warren is long to capit

n.p.r.? up %. since 000, n.p.r. audience is up 58%. 5.7 million unique monthl visitors to the website, up more than five million. this is a reflection of the quality of its program and dedication to its mission. public broadcasting helps educate our society, celebrates the arts, education, respectful debate, and civil discourse. n.p.r. and the 900-plus local stations are a valuable resource for our country. i urge my collgues to stand up for public broadcasting and oppose this legislation. i yid back. thspeaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california reserves the balance of her time. the gentlelady from tennessee. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. speaker. i would like to take just a moment and since the previous speaker talked a little bit about n.p.r. and its listening audience. i would like to make certain that the record reflects a little bit about that listening audien. we know that more men than women listen to n.p.r. except for the classical music which is 48% female. baby boomers are a big part of their aud

it's an emergency n.p.r. must be defunded right now at least that's what house republicans are claiming as they held an emergency meeting of the rules committee today to take up legislation that would block funding to n.p.r. all the weight of james james o'keefe hidden camera on the news organization now of course they're painting this as a budgetary issue but you really have to wonder if in the middle of an economic crisis defunding n.p.r. is going to solve all of our problems perhaps even more telling as if this new legislation that's being drafted targets only and p.r. public broadcasting and i wouldn't just defund it for a while until maybe the economy picks back up but perhaps it's all funding from n.p.r. permanently so is this just another example of the g.o.p. the temp c d find anything that democrats might consider important earlier from our studio in new york i caught up with sam seder political host of the majority report majority f.m. radio i first asked to consider it this country is fighting two

in the situation n.p.r. themselves have taken with james o'keefe has done in the past seriously and the guy is a serial fraud so you know this is this is all just a game the republicans like to pretend that they're concerned about the deficit or they're concerned about spending the amount of money that they're talking about is is absolutely insignificant on top of that president obama already suggested the same cuts so the idea that this is an emergency in some way or that they have to get out in front of this is just proof positive that this is just another one of their culture war shenanigans and frankly it's a joke it's a complete waste of everyone's time and you know i feel like. i mean justified by this example that we're talking about i feel like this country becoming so much more polarized and now i feel like the media you know only makes it easier for that to be that way if we look at the cable networks today the washington post actually he would something new on their web page when it comes to their

n.p.r.'s journalism is still you know top notch award winning this is a guy who's a fundraiser he was not in charge of editorial content he was not producing content for n.p.r. so n.p.r.'s coverage was not at all is not indicative of n.p.r.'s coverage but back to like the broader issues here holder's idiots on. the right have a lot of i don't i don't think that's clear i mean the video shows something very interesting answers to n.p.r. employees are usually not part of the process but they seem to agree with what they were saying national national palestine radio oh i like that i like that for a reason they seem to be mccloy jr i think you have to agree wolf you'll find it's everywhere so if i went over to his foundation you know dressed the right way to talk to the right people with cameras right are you surprised i think there's only go as there are no i'm sorry but i want to go i got a lot of that meets the. road so what's happening with journalism is that it's becoming more accessible cam

n.p.r.'s website, they are an independent, self-supporting media organization. however they also admit their revenue comes primarily from fees paid by their member stations. in fact, membership dues, station programming fees account for 36% of n.p.r.'s funding. in h.r. 1 we started the process of letting n.p.r. operate on its own. without taxpayer involvement by defunding it for the remainder of fiscal year 2011. however h.r. 1 only addressed appropriated funds for the rest of the current fiscal year. the bill we have before us today addresses the authorized use of funds not just for the rest of fiscal year 2011 but going forward. under this bill, n.p.r. will continue to provide its programming. they just can't use taxpayer dollars to subsidize it. moreover, our goal on h.r. 1076 is that there won't be a need for this funding going forward. this is something the appropriations committee can factor into their funding decisions for fiscal year 2012, and the future. let me stress again, this bil

it won't defund n.p.r. n.p.r. 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 may be diminished a little bit. what it does is hammer small rural american stations, smalltown and rural america where it's more expensive to broadcast and where they rely on this funding to be able to produce the programs. it would not just hammer n.p.r., 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 producing locally produced content from other public broadcasting stations. this is lunacy. it unravels is carefully crafted partnership which has delivered year after year. it's why the american public strongly supports this investment, this one half cent per day. in fact, 78% of the american public want it maintained or increased. and most interestingly, that same bipartisan poll showed that 2/3 of american republicans sup

n.p.r.we'll show you that debate in a moment. and on this morning's "washington journal," we'll talk about the federal budget and earthquake detection. live at 7:00 eastern. >> federal agencies have been slow to respond to freedom of information act requests according to a new study. today, a discussion of white house transparency. we'll hear from watchdog groups and members of the obama administration. live coverage from the center for american progress starts at noon eastern. president obama will travel to brazil, chile and el salvador leaved friday night. at 2:00 p.m. eastern, secretary of state hillary clinton will preview the trip and talk about u.s. relations with south and central america. that's live from the center for strategic and international studies. >> the house voted to ban federal funds for n.p.r. programming. the vote 228-192 would prevent public radio stations from spending federal funds on programming. the measure, which no house democrats voted in favor of, is opposed by

that n.p.r. find out how new republican legislation could make the same form of uncovering the truth illegal but only if it's used against major agricultural or. for flimsy low and he has told rachel about using women nothing people are suggesting she's told her no she says she's a star. state . welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour a phony a video posted online by right wing ag james o'keefe led to the resignations of two n.p.r. executives last week o'keefe did all he did was not illegal but if someone from peta were to do the same thing in say a farm or a slaughterhouse they get thrown in jail for ten years or explore this double standard plus what does chamber a president tom donahue know they you don't i'll explain and i still take but first a pharmaceutical drug once priced at ten dollars is now fifteen hundred dollars. how it how and i'll explain to you how this thing is screwing expectant moms. in our home pharmaceuticals are putting profits ahead of h

it seems to me that n.p.r. let's talk about it here for a minute she is neither fish nor fowl the are not government funded because they're getting i mean they're get they're getting some government funds and they get a bunch of corporate funds and back when they were entirely government funded they were doing like really great investigative journalism and they busted. are just in the middle and a.t.m. had to pay a three hundred million dollars fine for price fixing that was n.p.r.'s research i don't see that happening now that they're corporate funded my position is they should either go entirely so. by their listeners or entirely government funded like maybe c and canadian broadcasting i'm just curious what you guys think about i think we're seeing n.p.r. being cut one position at a time you know with with. all the resignations i think it's got that ultimately going to end up being a privately funded entity it's got bill your take on this you wrote a book about the talk was about budgets hard to public radio

go home and brag about slashing funds out of n.p.r. at the same time refusing to touch one nickel of one hundred thirty day the in dollar war bionics kling in afghanistan and i made a point i thought it was highly inconsistent and i think you're absolutely right congressman ron paul thanks for dropping by tonight thank you very provides more insight into this issue john nichols the washington correspondent for the nation magazine john welcome back com it's great to be with you thank you congressman because senate judge suggested the president obama may have actually committed an impeachable offense ralph nader run further and said obama is committing war crimes what's your take on that what you just heard congressman paul said. i think agreeing with my point that this constitution requires a declaration of war before we in the absence of a defense of war or we engage ourselves militarily elsewhere. i agree with these points are passionate written a book on it some years ago and it comes back again and again in my writing i we at succes

and n.p.r.'s listenership has increased unlike other stations by 72% over the last 10 years. in a recently national survey found, that's why i think this is an ill begotten proposal by the majority, you say you listen to the american people, i think you have to take the plugs out of your ears, a recent survey found almost 70% of all voters across the entire political

conservatives have always said n.p.r.ed, they don't like that and they don't want their people paying for it, meaning their voters and estimates so a lot of friction approximate, but bert and ernie -- chris: do you think it could be made more centrist? >> i think n.p.r. say great news organization. the problem is not that it's too liberal, it's too elitist. it's high-end. chris: the good part is it covers the world the >> ovechkin seen as elitist -- the value of npr is it does have correspondents around the world and that's very expensive when a lot of news organizations are cutting their coverage. there say security argument for the idea that we need more foreign coverage the i don't think most republicans actually object so much to the sums. as you point out they're very small. it is the idea that you are funding public broadcasting that they believe has a bias. if you are funding public broadcasting you have to make very sure that your news reporting is objective. >> i think they've done a good job the last 10 years. t

to bring this up again especially since these you know there's nothing actually new going on with n.p.r.'s funding is just they said something that a lot of conservatives don't like about how they respond i also think it's a great distraction for house republicans who in the fall promised to cut a hundred billion dollars from the budget revise that to sixty and now they can barely passed it now they're doing these extensions of the continuing resolution so this riles up the base well if you're speaking of. distractions there's a new t.v. show out there which basically looks at one hundred one different ways to get kicked off the show and every time somebody gets voted off the show you get to choose how they leave they can get like strapped to a boat fall off a plane all kinds of crazy stuff what does this say about our country jenny i think it says some things and i'm so excited. i don't know if you know i don't know if you know enough either of you know i consider myself a reality t.v. connoisseur our. reality t.v. happens to be one of my favorite things in the world and this show is b

ron schiller also said n.p.r. would be better off without long-run federal funding, at a time when some in congress have proposed cutting funds for public broadcasting. the comments were secretly recorded at a lunch with schiller and two men claiming to represent a muslim philanthropic organization interested in donating to n.p.r. before the tape surfaced, schiller announced he was leaving n.p.r. a spokesman released a statement today saying the organization is "appalled" by schiller's comments. this afternoon, house majority leader eric cantor said, "this disturbing video makes clear that taxpayer dollars should no longer be appropriated to n.p.r." stocks on wall street ended higher today as oil prices eased slightly. the dow jones industrial average gained 124 points to close at 12,214. the nasdaq rose 20 points to close at 2765. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to gwen. >> ifill: the budget battle once again took center stage today in the senate, as lawmakers prepared for another round of he

a debate at all because we saw from the video and i'm not saying that we saw from that video that n.p.r. is biased but i will say is that we saw that you know people high up in the company don't think that they need the money to make it so why are we giving them transparent money if they don't need it it's completely crazy i do have to say i completely agree with you and this is not the time to be talking about things like this and this is not an emergency bill that needs to be talked about right away but i mean it's certainly something that needs to be looked at and i have to say no i can't point to this story or that story and say that's where liberal bias was however from just. snotty a lead us voices that i hear all day long i have to say it sounds liberal and elitist to me and if you've got some fire and brimstone people in there you know yelling and really causing a fuss might sound more like america to me. leave us snotty i hear actually i can i used to drive a volvo believe it or not which is like isn't that what n.p.r. listeners frogger of all those were i understand we're show

watch dot org great thank you lisa n.p.r. watch that or check it out there being conflicting reports about what the filibustering democratic senators who have been across state lines for weeks now will actually do in the aftermath of governor walker's and the republicans illegal tactics whether they come home in the next few days and what options are left for them to stand up for the workings constituents and strike down this bill not only strips workers their basic rights but also undermines our democracy for more of this i'm joined by one of those democratic senators chris lawrence chris welcome to the program. thank you for having me great to have you with us did the republicans in wisconsin just undo fifty years of labor rights as one of your colleagues. exactly and unfortunately did in a very short time frame this is something where they have the opportunity to hear the people the people try to be trying to speak out and unfortunately they decided they were just going to shut them out time and time again and what we saw

still to come on the big picture n.p.r.'s c.e.o. is no more although in a video sting is don't want you to call it a video of the same right wing activist who went after after the break i'll be joined by a guest discuss this gotcha journalism that i was changing for that. is. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions great through. who can you trust no one who is you who would have noble mission see where we had a state controlled capitalism it's called sessions when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more. than here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture.

two weeks it was really really important to debate whether or not to defund planned parenthood and n.p.r. and i didn't see him say anything about gee maybe we should talk about what's going on in libya isn't is it doesn't the leadership of the house of representatives in particular since that's where we originate spending bills have bear some responsibility in this us congress a co-equal branch of government. however it's a personal and it's exactly right it's article one article two is creates an executive. however the president made a decision to initiate the war without going to congress and that i think is the first problem we have the second problem is will congress when he gets the chance to cut funding do so not only as an expression of. provocative under the constitution but also the stop a war that is heading us for still another disaster on top of iraq and afghanistan we cannot predict the outcome and the arrogance that says that we can somehow have control i've said it before when you unleash the dogs of war they may not come back . when you call them or when they do come back

be declaring war and so if the if congress is sitting around arguing about whether or not to defund n.p.r. when they should be deciding whether or not we're going to war with this guy then they're not doing their jobs and republicans are totally screwing it up or that it's incumbent upon president obama personally because they get sixty days to do unilateral military action without a congressional authorization but beyond that it's incumbent upon the president who hasn't done this for two and a half years to go to congress as i need this done get it done and that includes ok i want to do a no fly zone in libya put together a resolution and pass it so i can science so i can go do it he hasn't done that with obamacare he didn't do that with the stimulus is the only president's job it see the constitution is very clear this is congress's job in congress in the days to defund planned parenthood let's see for n.p.r. on something going on in libya not our job to know these but it's amazing to see on t.v. and said you should president just went on t.v. and said this is not negotiable we have to

ignored the fact that the n.p.r. employee made it clear that there was a firewall between any contributions and influencing the editorial content. that's why n.p.r. and pbs are the most trusted names in broadcasting. why 78% in a recent poll of americans said they wanted public broadcasting support, maintained or even increased and indeed 2/3 of the republicans wanted support maintained and increased. i hope my republican colleagues will listen to the public and support this vital resource. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida, mr. nugent, for five minutes. mr. nugent: mr. speaker, it's with a heavy heart that i rise today to honor the life of corporal jonathan w. taylor. four years to the day of his graduation from boot camp, corporal taylor died. the age of 23. he bravely gave his life while conducting combat operations in helmand province, afghanistan. growing up, corporal taylor always knew he wanted to be a united states marine. as a student at la canto high school, he was par

expect next from this foreign policy game that never seems to and then it's an emergency and defund n.p.r. or really i think there are some more important things going on in the world is this just the latest example of the right wing trying to take down anything the democrats might consider important and happy sunshine week it's a time where we can congratulate the obama administration for all of their efforts to practice transparency but this this government is anything but transparent so why is this president being awarded we're going to get to the bottom all of that and much more it's nice show but first let's move on to our top story. tonight the world waits and watches the scene to pan can avert a nuclear catastrophe thousands of people living near the troubled nuclear power plant have been told to leave as radiation levels continue to rise but getting out of japan is nearly impossible as the country tries to recover from the devastating earthquake and tsunami artie's ivor bennett is in japan tonight report. this queue of people is a kilometer long trying to stockpile what food is le

industry that they have to name all the chemicals to them and they said they are really due to that n.p.r. i but they only report what is it over ten thousand pounds of chemicals that are police and the industry was kind of upset because they didn't want to give away their trade secrets in all this and they didn't do self-important you're talking about who's going to actually pull the phone. now you just let industry police themselves and all these are just a name but in your office waiting for them to report to you can tell you what is going on shouldn't that be allowed at home. we actually sold them the land i don't know what here it was they they did hold a boat out here and ask. well the land and i don't know how much land that they ended up selling to them but. i have asked our elders and they said that they were told that there was going to be chemical plants what did they tell you about chemicals that their chemical. abode if they didn't really tell me a whole lot more. and then everybody at that time i guess they must have been looking and i think that a dollar signs that they're

industry that they have to name all the chemicals to them and they said they are really cute that n.p.r. but they only report what is it wouldn't and open kinds of chemicals that are opening and the industry has kind of step because they don't want to give away their trade secrets to notice and they say they do felt important you're talking about who's going to actually pull the phone if you're free now you just let industry police themself and all these are just that when you put in your office waiting for them to report to you can tell you what's going on shouldn't that be allowed at home. we actually sold them the land i don't know what here it was they they did hold a boat out here and ask. people that just sell the land and i don't know how much land that they ended up selling to them play a town. i have asked our elders and they said that they were told that there was going to be chemical it's over did they tell you about chemicals that their chemical. abode in it they didn't really tell me a whole lot more. and then everybody had a bad time i guess they must have been looking at

maybe as lot n.p.r.'s battles with thousands fleeing young. rasta u.s. and u.k. forces remain on standby and many fear international involvement could become another a form of oppression. hundreds are still out on the streets and aged saying they'll stay until all their demands are met but i'm one of the first arab states to call for democracy if the empty businesses which are now feeling the bitter aftertaste of revolution. and almost six decades after joseph stalin staff the dispute over his legacy still loud and clear brush of a controversial song the leader of the idolized and demonized in equal measures also the headlines here in r.t. up next all the latest sports highlights what natasha. you're watching the latest sports news live on our team first up our top stories mattel lowered to make it into the second round of the playoffs while on guard to tie their series with nets and he make full swing besides the. davis cup he called russia trailed to love often they won while spain held by world number one rafael a doll are too good for belgium. and also talks

agenda closely because in an interview with n.p.r.'s steve inskeep yesterday daniel said he supports job losses when asked are government budget cuts worth it even if they end up seriously costing a lot of jobs right now governor daniels responded the answer is yes and this guy may be running for president next year so much for jobs being a top priority to republicans and that's very clearly. what's wrong with america's billionaires it's going to be that they're actually mentally ill or at least a significant coord of the compulsive hoarding is a symptom of obsessive compulsive disorder it's a mental illness that causes people to constantly collect items to the point that their homes and lives are overwhelmed you may have seen the eighty show about the disease if i woke up tomorrow and everything was gone i would probably freak out i can leave we build but i can't live with the staff so the first pieces control the damage starts she broke her arm and there are stairs. no not really threw it away that i'm going to immediately need it th

followers shutting down the government possible answers yes defunding planned parenthood obamacare n.p.r. major obstacles or no the republicans will come to their senses and stop angering to the far right wing and the war on workers so far most of you have overwhelmingly voted yes while going to let us know what you think the open until. coming out to take a weapon should eleven people killing them on the spot sure enough you're probably get the death penalty so are the executives at p.v.p. behind the gulf oil coast well spill any difference the answer inside still it's a. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here. i think the plumbing even wanted well. we have the government says they're for the keep you safe get ready because you get their freedom. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you saw you don't. charge is a big. fight . fight fight. crazy alert a woman in california was facing up to five years in prison after she w

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followers shutting down the government possible answers yes defunding planned parenthood obamacare and n.p.r. major obstacles for them or no the republicans will come to their senses and stop angering to the far right wing and the war on workers so far most of you have overwhelmingly voted yes while going to town urban icon to let us know what you think the polls be open until tomorrow betty. coming out it's a weapon and should eleven people killing them on the spot sure enough you probably get the death penalty so are the executives ed feed peavy hundred dollars oil clothes well spill any difference the answer in tonight's daily tale. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right. i think. even on the well. we never got the shows to keep you safe get ready because their freedom. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so bleak you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here see some other part of it and realized everything you saw you don't i'm sorry this is the picture. for. fun. for. crazy alert a woman in california was facing up to five years in pri