In a special video message, the Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, congratulated the Voice of America (VOA) on the 70th anniversary of VOA broadcasting to China. The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a federal agency which manages VOA, tried to end all VOA radio and television broadcasts in Mandarin [...]

Key members of Congress spoke at a Capitol Hill reception hosted Tuesday evening by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher to mark the 70th anniversary of Voice of America broadcasting to China and stressed the importance of VOA for the cause of media freedom and human rights. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, addressed VOA [...]

Fox News reported — Lawmakers Scramble to Keep Voice of America On Air in China — that Congressional lawmakers are scrambling to prevent America’s international media arm from going off-air in China, arguing that a plan to shift much of its reporting to the Internet won’t do much good in a country notorious for its [...]