----------------------------Original message---------------------------- "Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble" [...........................] "EYE OF NEWT and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog." [...........................] "By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes." Macbeth, act IV, scene 1 (The three Witches) Capitalization mine, not Shakespeare's. ----------------------------------------------------------- I am forwarding this message from a very well-informed and alert colleague Please read, weep and snarl. Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 22:20:49 -0600 From: "landay jerry m." <[log in to unmask]> To: Ed Jahiel <[log in to unmask]> Subject: There Newt Goes Again Mime-Version: 1.0 Ed: You may want to put the following out to your network. I have verified its publication in the Style Section of yesterday's Washington Post: ----------- DT: February 17, 1995 RE: Newt Gingrich Vows To Zero Out CPB in a Speech yesterday to GOP Staffers LEGISLATIVE UPDATE LEGISLATIVE UPDATE LEGISLATIVE UPDATE LEGISLATIVE UPDATE LEGISLATIVE UPDATE An article in today's Washington Post quotes House Speaker Newt Gingrich saying "the CPB still hasn't seen the light." ... "They still don't realize that the appropriation is gone, that game is over." He goes on to say, "The power of the Speaker is the power of recognition, and I will not recognize any proposal that will appropriate money for the CPB." ... "What they should be doing is planning the future." The Speaker's comments go well beyond his earlier statements on elimination of funding for CPB and completely contradict his statements last month that he was "not fixed in concrete" on the issue of CPB funding. Privatization is clearly on the Speaker's mind. Talking about the spectrum allocated to public broadcasting, the Speaker said: "They're sitting on very valuable assets. Channel 8 in Atlanta is choice spectrum. Sell that slot to a commercial operation, move PBS to Channel 36, and Georgia public broadcasting could live forever on the interest from that trust fund." He went on to say "I don't know why they call it public broadcasting. As far as I am concerned, there's nothing public about it; it's an elitist enterprise. Rush Limbaugh is public broadcasting." This is clearly the hardest line the Speaker has drawn yet regarding funding for public broadcasting. It comes at a time when the House Appropriations Committee is beginning work on a rescission bill(reduction or elimination of already appropriatedfunds). Next week the Labor, HHS, Subcommittee will mark-up their portion of the rescission bill which includes funding for CPB. Members of Congress will be in their districts begining today for a long weekend. end------------------------------------------------ "and there is throats to be cut, and works to be done" (Capt.Macmorris in Shakespare, HENRY V, act III sc.II)