{"id":14074,"date":"2015-07-16T15:49:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T19:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=14074"},"modified":"2015-07-16T15:49:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T19:49:51","slug":"rep-salmon-introduces-bill-to-defund-voice-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/rep-salmon-introduces-bill-to-defund-voice-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Salmon introduces bill to defund Voice of America"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Rep.<\/a>

Rep. Matt Salmon (AZ-05)<\/p><\/div>\n

(Source: \u00a0sonorannews.com<\/a>\u00a0via Dan Robinson)<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014Rep. Matt Salmon (AZ-05) announced the eighth Shrink our Spending Initiative bill focused on highlighting and cutting wasteful, taxpayer-funded programs. Upon introduction of his latest bill to eliminate federal funding for Voice of America, Salmon released the following statement:<\/p>\n

\u201cMy eighth SOS bill is aimed at cutting yet another duplicative, federal program and saving you 212 million dollars by doing so. While originally commissioned to provide a \u2018clear and effective presentation\u2019 of U.S. policy, Voice of America (VOA) has veered from its original mission and become a government-funded news outlet. The United States already funds organizations that disseminate unfiltered news to regions of the world that lack a free press.<\/p>\n

\u201cTechnology has also rendered Cold War relics, such as VOA, obsolete. The rise of the Internet and social media, especially in closed countries have connected the world in ways we could have never imagined, and with their success, and other U.S. taxpayer-funded broadcasting programs, it makes fiscal sense to eliminate this superfluous, federally-funded entity.\u201d[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full article.<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here if you would like to contact\u00a0Rep. Matt Salmon.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: \u00a0sonorannews.com\u00a0via Dan Robinson) WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014Rep. Matt Salmon (AZ-05) announced the eighth Shrink our Spending Initiative bill focused on highlighting and cutting wasteful, taxpayer-funded programs. Upon introduction of his latest bill to eliminate federal funding for Voice of America, Salmon released the following statement: \u201cMy eighth SOS bill is aimed at cutting yet another duplicative, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,960,3,43],"tags":[406,936,3980,3981,3982,10,182],"class_list":["post-14074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bbg","tag-broadcasting-board-of-governors","tag-rep-matt-salmon","tag-shrink-our-spending-initiative","tag-sos-bill","tag-voa","tag-voice-of-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3F0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10387,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/us-house-passes-h-r-4490\/","url_meta":{"origin":14074,"position":0},"title":"US House passes H.R. 4490","author":"Thomas","date":"July 28, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0United States International Communications Reform Act of 2014 (H.R. 4490)\u00a0has just passed the the House today, next it will go before the US Senate. 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