[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 51 (Friday, March 22, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S2612]
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SA 1795. Mr. SCHMITT (for himself and Ms. Ernst) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 2882, to
reauthorize the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Trust Fund, and
for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
Sec. ___. (a) None of the funds made available by this Act
may be used--
(1) by an employee acting under the official authority of
the Federal Government to create a list or database with the
purpose of gathering and labeling any speech of a United
States citizen as disinformation or misinformation;
(2) to provide or transmit a list or database described in
paragraph (1) or a single item of speech to any provider or
operator of a covered platform in order to alter, remove,
restrict, or suppress speech of a United States citizen that
is shared on the covered platform based on a determination,
by an employee acting under the official authority of the
Federal Government, that the views of the speech in the list,
database, or item are disinformation or misinformation; or
(3) to create, or provide funding to a foreign government,
quasi-governmental organization, or nonprofit organization
for the research, development, or maintenance of, any
disinformation or misinformation list or ranking system
relating to news content, regardless of medium.
(b) For purposes of this section, the term ``covered
platform'' means an interactive computer service, as that
term is defined in section 230 of the Communications Act of
1934 (47 U.S.C. 230).
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