S746Referred to Committee

Defund NPR Act

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Introduced
In Committee
3
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both
5
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-02-26
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Sponsor

Jim Banks
Jim Banks
Republican · IN · Senator
Votes with party: 77.0% (903 recorded votes)

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

2025-02-26

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Committee Activity

Plain-English Summary

Defund NPR Act This bill prohibits federal funding of National Public Radio (NPR) or any successor organization. The prohibition includes the payment of dues to or the purchase of programming from NPR by a public broadcast station using federal funds.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

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Science, Technology, Communications
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