[Drango]

look like this is in fact an actual cut in funding.

Yeah but this *maybe* cut of 26% won't happen IMHO. Normally staunch Republicans like Zack Wamp and George Nethercutt who sit on the appropriations committee, ALSO sit on the Friends of "Public Broadcasting" collective. Go figure...

Wamp is a founding member of the Public Broadcasting Caucus Group! (see my home page for a full list...)

[m1911]

You're right. And even if it gets out of the House, the Senate will beat it to death before it can escape and do any good.