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H.R. 5897

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Fair and Clear Campaign Transparency Act
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Committee
Latest Action · November 8, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
Congress
117th (2021–2023)
Introduced
November 5, 2021
Cosponsors (19)
19D 0R
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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.

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