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S 34 PCSCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

To prevent the Federal Communications Commission from repromulgating the fairness doctrine.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

January 6, 2009CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Mr. DEMINT (for himself, Mr. INHOFE, Mr. THUNE, Mr. ALEXANDER, Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. BOND, Mr. BROWNBACK, Mr. CHAMBLISS, Mr. COBURN, Mr. CORNYN, Mr. CRAPO, Mr. ENSIGN, Mr. ENZI, Mr. GRAHAM, Mrs. HUTCHISON, Mr. ISAKSON, Mr. KYL, Mr. LUGAR, Mr. MARTINEZ, Mr. MCCONNELL, Mr. ROBERTS, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. VITTER, Mr. VOINOVICH, and Mr. WICKER) introduced the following bill; which was read the first timeCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

January 7, 2009CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Read the second time and placed on the calendarCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

To prevent the Federal Communications Commission from repromulgating the fairness doctrine.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

SEC. 2. FAIRNESS DOCTRINE PROHIBITED.

Title III of the Communications Act of 1934 is amended by inserting after section 303 (47 U.S.C. 303) the following new section:CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

‘SEC. 303A. LIMITATION ON GENERAL POWERS: FAIRNESS DOCTRINE.

‘Notwithstanding section 303 or any other provision of this Act or any other Act authorizing the Commission to prescribe rules, regulations, policies, doctrines, standards, or other requirements, the Commission shall not have the authority to prescribe any rule, regulation, policy, doctrine, standard, or other requirement that has the purpose or effect of reinstating or repromulgating (in whole or in part) the requirement that broadcasters present opposing viewpoints on controversial issues of public importance, commonly referred to as the ‘Fairness Doctrine’, as repealed in General Fairness Doctrine Obligations of Broadcast Licensees, 50 Fed. Reg. 35418 (1985).’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Calendar No. 12CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

To prevent the Federal Communications Commission from repromulgating the fairness doctrine.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

January 7, 2009CommentsClose CommentsPermalink