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A bill to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended to require news outlets that are agents of a foreign principal to provide adequate disclosure of their status.

Introduced: July 2, 2020 See on congress.gov
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Jul 2, 2020
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Jul 2, 2020
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill requires a news outlet that is an agent of a foreign principal to provide certain disclosures. Specifically, any news outlet that is required to register as an agent of a foreign principal must include, in any transmission in or into the United States, that the transmission is made by an agent of a foreign principal and that additional infomation is on file with the Department of Justice.

What's happening now July 2, 2020

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 1 Republican 1
D
Blumenthal, Richard
Connecticut · Jul 2, 2020
 R
Cornyn, John
Texas · Jul 2, 2020
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 4207: A bill to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended to require news outlets that are agents of a foreign principal to provide adequate disclosure of their status.. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-4207/
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"S. 4207: A bill to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended to require news outlets that are agents of a foreign principal to provide adequate disclosure of their status.." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-4207/.
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S. 4207, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-4207/.
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[S. 4207: A bill to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended to require news outlets that are agents of a foreign principal to provide adequate disclosure of their status.](https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-4207/)
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