[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 21 (Tuesday, March 1, 2005)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E323]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               BROADCAST DECENCY ENFORCEMENT ACT OF 2005

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                               speech of

                         HON. EDWARD J. MARKEY

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, February 16, 2005

  Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, on February 16, 2005, the House approved 
H.R. 310, the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005. It passed the 
House by a vote of 389 to 38 and had 67 cosponsors when it was 
considered by the House. Due to a failure to convey in timely fashion a 
co-sponsorship request from my staff to the bill's sponsor, Chairman 
Fred Upton, our colleague Representative Gene Taylor (D-MS) was not 
listed as one of the cosponsors prior to the bill's passage through the 
House. Representative Taylor has been a strong supporter of the bill, 
and was a cosponsor of the identical legislative effort in the last 
Congress. I am pleased to have his ardent support for H.R. 310. And I 
want the Record to reflect his intention to be a cosponsor, as well as 
his early and longstanding support for the public interest in 
broadcasting and adequate enforcement tools for the Federal 
Communications Commission.

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