Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2011

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 112th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

MPR PenceSponsor

145 cosponsors · 2 D, 143 R

WAR Akin JAR Amash SBR Bachus RBR Bartlett JBR Barton BBR Bilbray KBR Brady DBR Burton MBR Bono Mack MBR Blackburn JBR Bonner RBR Bishop MBR Bachmann VBR Buchanan PBR Broun ACR Crenshaw TCR Cole KCR Conaway JCR Campbell QCR Canseco CCR Cravaack RCR Crawford DDR Dreier JDR Duncan JDR Duncan JAR Ann Emerson RER Ellmers JFR Flake TFR Franks VFR Foxx JFR Fleming BFR Farenthold BFR Flores KGR Granger SGR Graves SGR Garrett PGR Gingrey LGR Gohmert CGR Gardner TGR Griffin DHR Hastings JHR Hensarling DHR Heller GHR Harper DHR Hunter VHR Hartzler DIR Issa WJR Jones JJR Jordan LJR Jenkins PKR King JKR Kingston SKR King JKR Kline AKR Kinzinger SLR LaTourette DLR Lamborn RLR Latta BLR Luetkemeyer CLR Lummis JLR Landry JLR Lankford DMR Manzullo GMR Miller TMR McCotter CMR Miller TMR Murphy CMR Mack MMR McCaul CMR McMorris Rodgers TMR McClintock DMR McKinley RNR Neugebauer RNR Nugent TPR Petri JPR Pitts TPR Platts TPR Poe BPR Posey MPR Pompeo BQR Quayle HRR Rogers DRR Rohrabacher ERR Royce MRR Rogers MRR Rogers PRR Roe TRR Rokita DRR Ross LSR Smith CSR Stearns MSR Simpson ASR Smith SSR Scalise ASR Schock SSR Southerland MSR Stutzman LTR Terry PTR Tiberi MTR Turner GTR Thompson EWR Whitfield GWR Walden JWR Wilson LWR Westmoreland TWR Walberg RWR Wittman AWR West SWR Womack JWR Walsh CYR Young DYR Young JYD Yarmuth JAD Altmire JCR Culberson JFR Forbes HGR Griffith THR Huelskamp FLR Lucas POR Olson PRR Ryan DRR Rehberg MCR Coffman SRR Rigell AHR Harris TLR Latham SPR Pearce KYR Yoder WHR Herger MMR Mulvaney DNR Nunes MFR Fitzpatrick BGR Goodlatte SAR Austria BJR Johnson CDR Dent BHR Huizenga BMR McKeon KCR Calvert PSR Sessions RFR Frelinghuysen FLR LoBiondo JBR Biggert JSR Sullivan BCR Cassidy

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

Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2011 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from having the authority to require broadcasters to present opposing viewpoints on controversial issues of public importance, commonly referred to as the Fairness Doctrine.