Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 111th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

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183 cosponsors · 6 D, 177 R

RAR Aderholt WAR Akin RAR Alexander SAR Austria SBR Bachus RBR Bartlett JBR Barton BBR Bilbray RBR Blunt JBR Boehner KBR Brady DBR Burton MBR Bono Mack JBR Boozman MBR Blackburn JBR Bonner GBR Brown-Waite MBR Burgess RBR Bishop CBR Boustany GBR Bilirakis VBR Buchanan PBR Broun KCR Calvert DCR Camp HCR Coble ACR Crenshaw ECR Cantor JCR Culberson JCR Carter TCR Cole KCR Conaway JCR Campbell JCR Chaffetz NDR Deal LDR Diaz-Balart DDR Dreier MDR Diaz-Balart GDR Davis JFR Flake JFR Forbes TFR Franks VFR Foxx MFR Fallin EGR Gallegly BGR Goodlatte KGR Granger SGR Graves SGR Garrett JGR Gerlach PGR Gingrey LGR Gohmert BGR Guthrie RHR Hall DHR Hastings WHR Herger PHR Hoekstra JHR Hensarling DHR Heller DHR Hunter BIR Inglis SJR Johnson WJR Jones TJR Johnson JJR Jordan JKR Kingston MKR Kirk JKR Kline JLR Lewis JLR Linder FLR Lucas DLR Lungren FLR LoBiondo DLR Lamborn RLR Latta CLR Lummis JMR McHugh BMR McKeon JMR Mica JMR Moran DMR Manzullo JMR Miller TMR McCotter CMR Miller TMR Murphy CMR Mack PMR McHenry MMR McCaul KMR Marchant CMR McMorris Rodgers KMR McCarthy TMR McClintock TPR Petri JPR Pitts RPR Paul TPR Platts APR Putnam TPR Price BPR Posey DRR Rohrabacher ERR Royce DRR Rehberg DRR Reichert FSR Sensenbrenner PSR Sessions JSR Shadegg JSR Shimkus CSR Smith LSR Smith CSR Stearns MSR Souder MSR Simpson BSR Shuster JSR Sullivan JSR Schmidt ASR Smith SSR Scalise ASR Schock TTR Tiahrt LTR Terry PTR Tiberi FUR Upton ZWR Wamp FWR Wolf GWR Walden JWR Wilson LWR Westmoreland JAD Altmire SCR Capito CDR Dent VER Ehlers JAR Ann Emerson RFR Frelinghuysen MMD McIntyre SMR Myrick TPR Poe GRR Radanovich MRR Rogers PRR Roskam JBR Biggert HBR Brown JGR Gresham Barrett MBR Bachmann JDR Duncan TLR Latham MTR Turner GTR Thompson CYR Young SBR Buyer JFR Fortenberry JFR Fleming DIR Issa CLR Lee RNR Neugebauer PRR Ryan MRR Rogers TRR Rooney MTR Thornberry LJR Jenkins PRR Roe JYD Yarmuth GMR Miller RWR Wittman EWR Whitfield MCR Castle SKR King DNR Nunes POR Olson HRR Rogers DYR Young BCR Cassidy GHR Harper IRR Ros-Lehtinen MCR Coffman LLR Lance PKR King SLR LaTourette JCR Cao BLR Luetkemeyer EPR Paulsen JPD Polis MAD Arcuri LDD Davis

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

Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009 - 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.