Cartoon aardvark (with House Democrats) lobbies for federal funding of PBS and NPR

(By Chris Moody, The Daily Caller) - House Democrats will make their case for continuing taxpayer funding of public media outlets like NPR and PBS with a little help from Arthur the PBS cartoon character, who will visit the Capitol Wednesday morning.

The friendly aardvark will join Democratic Reps. Edward Markey of Massachusetts, Earl Earl Blumenauer of Oregon and others to hit back against Republicans who have pledged to cut the funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the next budget.

Republicans released their plan to cut more than $60 billion from the federal budget last week.