John Cornyn: “We took the step that many of us have talked about for many…”

“And Mr. President, I will close with this prediction. We know from recent events, some as recent as early this morning when We took the step that many of us have talked about for many years and that is eliminating taxpayer support for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. There are more than enough media entities that are capable of communicating the news and other information of interest to our constituents, the 350 million people of the country.” (12:14–12:26)

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