Senate Passes Indecency Measure

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WASHINGTON, D.C. The U.S. Senate today passed legislation to steeply increase fines for broadcast indecency, adding language to roll back relaxations of media ownership laws and to potentially restrict violent programming.

The additional provisions are likely to complicate efforts to forge final congressional action on the indecency issue that drew headlines and hearings after Janet Jackson’s breast was exposed on the Feb. 1 Super Bowl broadcast.

House leaders and the Bush administration support the ownership liberalization, and the House made sure its version of the anti-indecency legislation did not address that concern.



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