Variety - Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, a contender for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination, will make an effort to explicitly grant the Federal Communications Commission authority over fleeting expletives on the broadcast airwaves -- authority a federal appellate court recently said the agency does not have.
The attempt will also include extending FCC regulatory authority over violent content.
The senior lawmaker plans to attach to a finance bill amendments that would extend FCC indecency authority over "excessively violent content" and inadvertent broadcast of expletives uttered even just once in passing. Read Complete Story
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