House GOP Moves To Block FCC Political Disclosure Rule

Language slipped into appropriations bill passes subcommittee

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The new Federal Communications Commission rule requiring TV stations to move their political adertising files online may never see the light of day if the House GOP gets its way. GOP leaders on the House Appropriations Committee slipped language into the draft of a 2013 appropriations bill that would cut off any funds to implement the controverisal FCC order, which was passed in April.

The language has a good chance of surviving the full committee and the GOP-controlled House, but it could run aground in the Senate. A

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