S746Referred to Committee
Defund NPR Act
Introduced
In Committee
3
Passed One Chamber4
Passed Both5
Signed into Law119th
Congress
2025-02-26
Introduced
0
Cosponsors
S
ⓘType
Sponsor
Jim Banks
Republican · IN · Senator
Votes with party: 77.0% (903 recorded votes)
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Cosponsors (0)
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No cosponsors on record. Bills can pass without cosponsors — this often means the sponsor introduced the bill alone, either because it's a messaging bill, a chairman's mark, or simply early in the legislative cycle.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
2025-02-26
Source: Congress.gov
Committee Activity
Currently in
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and TransportationReferred To · 2025-02-26
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.
Subjects
Science, Technology, Communications
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