Thread: Pelosi Backs Senate Amendment to Regulate Talk Radio

Speaker Pelosi Backs Senate Amendment to Regulate Talk Radio
Friday, March 06, 2009
By Josiah Ryan, Staff Writer

(CNSNews.com) – Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told CNSNews.com on Thursday that she supports an amendment to a Senate bill that would force the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to “take actions to encourage and promote diversity in communication media ownership and to ensure that broadcast station licenses are used in the public interest.â€

The amendment, sponsored by Senate Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and attached to a bill (S.160) that would grant Washington, D.C., a vote in the House of Representatives, was approved by the Senate last Thursday in a party line 57-41 vote.

Minutes after the passage of the ‘Durbin amendment’ last Thursday a separate amendment that would ban the restoration of the Fairness Doctrine, which was proposed by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), was also attached to the same D.C. voting rights bill and passed by a vote of 87-11


Quite a disparity in the voting, isn't there?

The vote to silence via Durbin only passed his ammendment by a mere 16 votes.

Mr. DeMint's ammedment to block the effort passed by a far wider margin of 76 votes.

Sounds like far more are AGAINST this blatant attempt to silence "dissent" and attempts to inform the American people, than are for it.

That's a good thing.