Senate To Consider Bill Restoring FCC's Fleeting Profanity Powers

PTC FIGHTS TO PRESERVE PROFANITY AMENDMENT
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
The Parents Television Council Thursday was hoping to keep the momentum going for a TV content-related amendments from Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kan). Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) wrote a letter to Brownback asking Brownback not to use the budgeting process to move the legislation. Inouye said he was working on a similar, bipartisan bill dealing with violence and profanity. But PTC does not see the promise of legislation as good enough: “With no legislation currently before the Commerce Committee and the August recess looming," said Winter. "There is no hope - zero - that the Senate can act before the September oral arguments in the Janet Jackson case, or before the FCC’s deadline to respond to the 2nd Circuit opinion."
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