[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5806-S5807]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 6283. Mrs. BLACKBURN (for herself and Mr. Schatz) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. 
Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the 
bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the end of subtitle G of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1077. ANNOUNCEMENT OF PAYMENT FOR BROADCAST.

       Section 317(c) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 
     317(c)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(c)(1) The licensee of each radio station shall exercise 
     reasonable diligence to obtain information to enable such 
     licensee to make the announcement required by this section.
       ``(2) In carrying out paragraph (1), the licensee of a 
     radio station shall consult--
       ``(A) its employees;
       ``(B) other persons with whom it deals directly in 
     connection with any program or program matter for broadcast; 
     and
       ``(C) any additional source of information the Commission 
     designates that may enable the licensee to verify whether the 
     matter broadcast by the radio station was paid for or 
     furnished by a foreign governmental entity.
       ``(3) The licensee of a radio station shall--
       ``(A) obtain the information required under paragraph (1)--
       ``(i) when the licensee enters into an agreement to lease 
     time on the radio station; and
       ``(ii) when the licensee renews any agreement described in 
     clause (i); and
       ``(B) keep a record of the information required under 
     paragraph (1).
       ``(4) For purposes of this subsection--
       ``(A) the term `agent of a foreign principal' means an 
     agent of a foreign principal, as defined in section 1(c) of 
     the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended (22 
     U.S.C. 611(c))--
       ``(i) that is registered as such with the Attorney General 
     under section 2 of that Act (22 U.S.C. 612);
       ``(ii) if the agent's foreign principal--
       ``(I) is a government of a foreign country or a foreign 
     political party; or
       ``(II) is directly or indirectly operated, supervised, 
     directed, owned, controlled, financed, or subsidized by the 
     government of a foreign country or a foreign political party; 
     and
       ``(iii) that is acting in its capacity as an agent of such 
     foreign principal described in clause (ii);
       ``(B) the term `foreign governmental entity' includes--
       ``(i) the government of a foreign country;
       ``(ii) a foreign political party;
       ``(iii) an agent of a foreign principal; and
       ``(iv) a United States-based foreign media outlet (as 
     defined in section 624);
       ``(C) the term `foreign political party' has the meaning 
     given the term in section 1(f) of the Foreign Agents 
     Registration Act of 1938, as amended (22 U.S.C. 611(f)); and
       ``(D) the term `government of a foreign country' has the 
     meaning given the term in

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     section 1(e) of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, 
     as amended (22 U.S.C. 611(e)).''.
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