Washington ? Public television stations and National Public Radio would lose 25 percent of their federal funding next year under a bill cleared by a House committee Thursday night, although some of their funding for future years would be restored.

The moves came as the House Appropriations panel approved a tightly drawn spending bill for labor, health and education programs. For the first time since the early days of GOP control of Congress 10 years ago, the measure, taken as a whole, makes actual cuts to the programs funded by the bill.

The measure eliminates almost 50 programs totaling $2.3 billion and cuts many others, including a $100 million cut from an already-enacted budget for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for the budget year starting Oct. 1. The corporation provides grants to local public broadcasting stations and creators of programming.

The bill contains $142.5 billion in spending under lawmakers’ control, but makes cuts to many of the more than 500 programs funded by the bill. For example, President Bush’s signature No Child Left Behind education initiative would be cut by $806 million – more than 3 percent.

Meanwhile, the committee rejected an attempt by social conservatives to ban federal funding for new research involving the transfer of genetic material into human eggs to grow stem cells. Opponents of the research, led by Rep. David Weldon, R-Fla., say it unethically creates cloned embryos. The research is under way at Stanford University and Harvard University.