[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 49 (Wednesday, March 18, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Page S1231]
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  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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