[History of Bills, Volume 155 (2009)]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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H.R. 985--A bill to maintain the free flow of information to the 
    public by providing conditions for the federally compelled 
    disclosure of information by certain persons connected with the 
    news media; to the Committee on the Judiciary.


By Mr. BOUCHER (for himself, Mr. Pence, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Goodlatte, 
Mr. Yarmuth, Mr. Walden, Ms. Zoe Lofgren of California, Mr. Coble, Mr. 
Wexler, Mr. Blunt, Ms. Berkley, Mr. Wu, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. Lee of 
California, Mr. Delahunt, Mr. Mack, Mr. McCaul, Ms. Norton, Mr. Wolf, 
Ms. Woolsey, Mr. Murphy of Connecticut, Mr. Upton, Ms. Slaughter, Mr. 
Berry, Ms. Giffords, Mr. Gonzalez, Mr. Putnam, Mr. Weiner, Mr. Payne, 
Mr. Cohen, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Radanovich, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Doyle, Ms. 
Baldwin, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Butterfield, and Mr. 
Rehberg), H1247 [11FE]

  Cosponsors added, H2926 [3MR], H3402 [12MR], H3749 [23MR], H3835 
  [24MR], H4027 [25MR]
  Reported (H. Rept. 111-61), H4127 [30MR]
  Rules suspended. Passed House, H4204 [31MR]
  Text, H4204 [31MR]
  Message from the House, S4169 [1AP]
  Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, S4170 [1AP]