S.Amdt. 4489

SA 4489. Mr. SCHIFF submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 1383, to establish the Veterans Advisory Committee
on Equal Access, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on
the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING INDEPENDENCE OF THE
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION.

It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) the Federal Communications Commission is an independent
agency, as evidenced by--
(A) the precedent established by the Supreme Court of the
United States in Wiener v. United States, 357 U.S. 349
(1958); and
(B) the commission structure that Congress established for
the Federal Radio Commission (the predecessor to the Federal
Communications Commission) in the Radio Act of 1927 (44 Stat.
1162, chapter 169) and for the Federal Communications
Commission in the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 151
et seq.); and
(2) Congress deliberately and clearly designed the Federal
Communications Commission to operate independent of executive
influence and to be insulated from political influence to the
greatest extent possible.
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