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U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation
For Immediate Release
June 4th, 2007		  
INOUYE: DISAPPOINTED WITH SECOND CIRCUIT DECISION
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Commerce Committee Chairman Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) released the following statement today in response to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decision overruling the Federal Communications Commission policy of prohibiting the use of expletives on broadcast television.

 

"It is disappointing that a divided Second Circuit panel chose to invalidate the FCC's efforts to combat the gratuitous use of offensive language on broadcast television. I hope and expect that the Commission will move swiftly in appealing this case to the Supreme Court."

 

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