[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1409 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1409

 To prevent the Federal Communications Commission from repromulgating 
                         the Fairness Doctrine.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 26, 2021

 Mr. Duncan (for himself, Mrs. Boebert, Mr. Bishop of North Carolina, 
  Mr. Perry, and Mr. Norman) introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prevent the Federal Communications Commission from repromulgating 
                         the Fairness Doctrine.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Reassuring that the United States 
Has Wide And Scrupulous Rhetorical Insight to Garnish Honest Thought 
Act of 2021'' or the ``RUSH WAS RIGHT Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. FAIRNESS DOCTRINE PROHIBITED.

    Title III of the Communications Act of 1934 is amended by inserting 
after section 303 (47 U.S.C. 303) the following new section:

``SEC. 303A. LIMITATION ON GENERAL POWERS: FAIRNESS DOCTRINE.

    ``Notwithstanding section 303 or any other provision of this Act or 
any other Act authorizing the Commission to prescribe rules, 
regulations, policies, doctrines, standards, or other requirements, the 
Commission shall not have the authority to prescribe any rule, 
regulation, policy, doctrine, standard, or other requirement that has 
the purpose or effect of reinstating or repromulgating (in whole or in 
part) the requirement that broadcasters present opposing viewpoints on 
controversial issues of public importance, commonly referred to as the 
`Fairness Doctrine', as repealed in General Fairness Doctrine 
Obligations of Broadcast Licensees, 50 Fed. Reg. 35418 (1985).''.
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