Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2007

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 110th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

MPR PenceSponsor

208 cosponsors · 3 D, 205 R

RAR Aderholt WAR Akin JBR Barton BBR Bilbray RBR Blunt JBR Boehner KBR Brady DBR Burton SBR Buyer MBR Bono Mack HBR Brown JBR Boozman JGR Gresham Barrett MBR Blackburn GBR Brown-Waite MBR Burgess RBR Bishop MBR Bachmann KCR Calvert DCR Camp CCR Cannon ACR Crenshaw ECR Cantor JCR Culberson JCR Carter TCR Cole KCR Conaway JCR Campbell TDR Davis NDR Deal JDR Doolittle JDR Duncan MDR Diaz-Balart GDR Davis TDR Drake DDR Davis PER English TER Everett JFR Flake TFR Feeney TFR Franks VFR Foxx LFR Fortuño MFR Fallin VGR Goode BGR Goodlatte SGR Graves SGR Garrett PGR Gingrey LGR Gohmert DHR Hastert DHR Hastings WHR Herger PHR Hoekstra DHR Hunter JHR Hensarling DIR Issa SJR Johnson JJR Jordan JKR Kingston MKR Kirk RKR Keller SKR King JKR Kline RKR Kuhl TLR Latham FLR Lucas DLR Lungren DLR Lamborn JMR McCrery SMR Myrick GMR Miller JMR Miller MMR Musgrave CMR Mack PMR McHenry KMR Marchant KMR McCarthy RNR Neugebauer JPR Pitts RPR Paul APR Putnam SPR Pearce TPR Price TPR Poe GRR Radanovich ERR Royce TRR Reynolds PRR Ryan FSR Sensenbrenner PSR Sessions JSR Shadegg LSR Smith CSR Stearns MSR Souder MSR Simpson BSR Shuster JSR Schmidt ASR Smith TTR Tiahrt LTR Terry FUR Upton DWR Weldon EWR Whitfield RWR Wicker FWR Wolf GWR Walden JWR Wilson LWR Westmoreland TWR Walberg DYR Young BCR Cubin MFR Ferguson DHR Heller RLR Lewis JLR Linder JMR Moran TMR McCotter JSR Sullivan BSR Sali TTR Tancredo VBR Buchanan TJR Johnson JMR McHugh CMR Miller MMR McCaul CPR Pickering JRR Ramstad MRR Rogers PRR Roskam JSR Shimkus PTR Tiberi MTR Turner TPR Petri JWR Weller EGR Gallegly KGR Granger CMR McMorris Rodgers DNR Nunes HRR Rogers DRR Rehberg CBR Boustany JFR Forbes JFR Fortenberry RAR Alexander RBR Baker JBR Biggert JBR Bonner MCR Castle SCR Capito CDR Dent PGR Gillmor JGR Gerlach RHR Hayes WJR Jones PKR King JKR Knollenberg RLR LaHood SLR LaTourette FLR LoBiondo JMR Mica JPR Porter DRR Rohrabacher DRR Reichert JSR Saxton CSR Shays MTR Thornberry JWR Walsh HWR Wilson CYR Young JYD Yarmuth SBR Bachus RBR Bartlett GBR Bilirakis PBR Broun SCR Chabot HCR Coble LDR Diaz-Balart DDR Dreier JAR Ann Davis VER Ehlers JAR Ann Emerson RFR Frelinghuysen VFR Fossella WGR Gilchrest RHR Hall DHR Hobson BIR Inglis BJR Jindal JLR Lewis BMR McKeon DMR Manzullo TMR Murphy JPR Peterson DPR Pryce TPR Platts RRR Regula IRR Ros-Lehtinen MRR Rogers RRR Renzi CSR Smith ZWR Wamp KHR Hulshof JAD Altmire RWR Wittman RLR Latta SSR Scalise MMD McIntyre

111 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2007 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), notwithstanding any other provision of any Act, from having the authority to require broadcasters to present opposing viewpoints on controversial issues of public importance, commonly referred to as the Fairness Doctrine.