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HR 5897 117th Congress House Science, Technology, Communications Administrative law and regulatory procedures Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies Elections, voting, political campaign regulation Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Government information and archives Internet, web applications, social media Political advertising

Fair and Clear Campaign Transparency Act

Introduced: November 5, 2021 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Nov 8, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
Nov 5, 2021
Introduced in House
Nov 5, 2021
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Fair and Clear Campaign Transparency Act

This bill directs the Federal Communications Commission to require certain online public inspection files to be made available to the public in a machine-readable format that supports automated searching, bulk downloading, aggregation, manipulation, sorting, and analysis.

Online public inspection files (including political files that contain records of requests to purchase broadcast time by or on behalf of candidates for public office or to communicate a message relating to a political matter of national importance) are files that must be uploaded to the internet by certain television broadcast stations and television systems, AM or FM radio broadcast stations, cable operators, direct broadcast satellite service providers, or satellite digital audio radio service providers.

What's happening now November 8, 2021

Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.

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 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 18
All 18 Democratic 14
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Meng, Grace
New York · Nov 16, 2021
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Brownley, Julia
California · Nov 5, 2021
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Clarke, Yvette D.
New York · Nov 5, 2021
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Cohen, Steve
Tennessee · Nov 5, 2021
COOPER, JAMES
· Nov 5, 2021
DEFAZIO, PETER
· Nov 5, 2021
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Himes, James A.
Connecticut · Nov 5, 2021
 D
Khanna, Ro
California · Nov 5, 2021
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Lieu, Ted
California · Nov 5, 2021
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McCollum, Betty
Minnesota · Nov 5, 2021
McNerney, Jerry
· Nov 5, 2021
 D
Morelle, Joseph D.
New York · Nov 5, 2021
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Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Nov 5, 2021
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Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · Nov 5, 2021
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Smith, Adam
Washington · Nov 5, 2021
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Takano, Mark
California · Nov 5, 2021
 D
Welch, Peter
Vermont · Nov 5, 2021
Yarmuth, John
· Nov 5, 2021
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5897: Fair and Clear Campaign Transparency Act. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-5897/
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"H.R. 5897: Fair and Clear Campaign Transparency Act." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-5897/.
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H.R. 5897, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-5897/.
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