Family Groups Push Indecency Bill

FAMILY GROUPS PUSH INDECENCY BILL
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
The Parents Television Council, Concerned Women For America, Focus on the Family, and the Family Research Council have scheduled a conference call for Tuesday to push for a Senate bill that would boost indecency fines by at least 10 times. The family groups say they want to "curb the deluge of indecent programming that’s already flooding the living rooms of families across the U.S." Elsewhere, the Christian Coalition is also pushing for action Tuesday. It put out an alert to members telling them to contact their legislators Tuesday and demand passage of the Senate bill, pointing out that it has been a year since the House passed the version introduced by House Telecommunications Subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI). The coalition is calling on Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) for an immediate Senate floor vote on the House bill, which would avoid having to conference the already-passed House bill with a Senate version that had differences in, say, the amount of the fine.
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