Federal Communications Commission greater authority
 

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WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday voted to approve two bills that would potentially give the Federal Communications Commission greater authority.

One bill would empower the FCC to take enforcement action against broadcasters who aired a single expletive, greatly expanding the agency's authority in this area.

Currently, the FCC policy is not to act against single or fleeting utterances of expletives on the air, as long as those expletives aren't used in a sexually explicit manner.

The bill, if adopted, would go some way to granting FCC Chairman Kevin Martin the powers he has long sought to take action against broadcasters who allow expletives to be aired.

In effect, the bill would allow the regulator to re-adopt its policy towards expletive broadcasts before an Appeals Court ruled the FCC hadn't adequately justified its attempt to change policy to pursue incidents of airing of single expletives.

Sen. John D. Rockefeller, D-W.Va., a member of the Commerce Committee, has aggressively pursued legislation to give the FCC more authority in this area.

"This bill is premised on the notion that broadcasters drop f-bombs and s- words with impunity, that claim is patently false," said Dennis Wharton, an executive with the National Broadcasters Association, a powerful Washington lobby group, who was attending the Senate panel hearing.

Shortly after the bill was approved, Martin's office issued a brief statement in which he commended the Senate Commerce Committee for recognizing "what we on the Commission and every parent already knows; even a single word or image can indeed be indecent."

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