CPB President Pat Harrison appeared on the Hill this week to make the agency's fiscal 2013
advance appropriation request of $604 million. She also made FY11 requests of $59.5 million for digital initiatives, and $32 million for Ready to Learn (background,
Current, Sept. 2, 1996). President Obama's current budget includes an FY13 CPB advance appropriation of $460 million. Harrison spoke before the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies of the Senate Appropriations Committee on April 12.
