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<item congress="116" measure-type="s" measure-number="4207" measure-id="id116s4207" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2020-07-02" update-date="2020-08-13">
<title>A bill to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended to require news outlets that are agents of a foreign principal to provide adequate disclosure of their status.</title>
<summary summary-id="id116s4207v00" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2020-08-13">
<action-date>2020-07-02</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>This bill requires&nbsp;a news outlet that is&nbsp;an agent of a foreign principal to provide certain disclosures. Specifically,&nbsp;any news outlet that is required to register as an agent of a foreign principal must&nbsp;include, in&nbsp;any transmission in or into the United States, that the transmission&nbsp;is made by an agent of a foreign principal and that additional infomation is on file with the Department of Justice. </p>]]></summary-text>
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<dc:contributor>Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress</dc:contributor>
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