Fair and Clear Campaign Transparency Act
Summary
Fair and Clear Campaign Transparency Act This bill directs the Federal Communications Commission to require certain online public inspection files to be made available to the public in a machine-readable format that supports automated searching, bulk downloading, aggregation, manipulation, sorting, and analysis. Online public inspection files (including political files that contain records of requests to purchase broadcast time by or on behalf of candidates for public office or to communicate a message relating to a political matter of national importance) are files that must be uploaded to the internet by certain television broadcast stations and television systems, AM or FM radio broadcast stations, cable operators, direct broadcast satellite service providers, or satellite digital audio radio service providers.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Nov 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Nov 5, 2021
Last action Nov 8, 2021
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Committee
2
Nov 8, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
lower
Nov 5, 2021
Committee
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
lower
Nov 5, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 19 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
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Anna G. Eshoo
DDemocratic
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Adam Smith
DDemocratic
Co
Betty McCollum
DDemocratic
Co
Earl Blumenauer
DDemocratic
Co
Eleanor Holmes Norton
DDemocratic
Co
Grace Meng
DDemocratic
Co
James A. Himes
DDemocratic
Co
Janice D. Schakowsky
DDemocratic
Co
Jerry McNerney
DDemocratic
Co
Jim Cooper
DDemocratic
Co
John A. Yarmuth
DDemocratic
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