Text of Senate Amendment 4489

Text of Senate Amendment 4489

Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 49 (Wednesday, March 18, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 49 (Wednesday, March 18, 2026)] [Senate] [Page S1231] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] SA 4489. Mr. SCHIFF submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1383, to establish the Veterans Advisory Committee on Equal Access, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: At the appropriate place, insert the following: SEC. ___. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING INDEPENDENCE OF THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION. It is the sense of Congress that-- (1) the Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency, as evidenced by-- (A) the precedent established by the Supreme Court of the United States in Wiener v. United States, 357 U.S. 349 (1958); and (B) the commission structure that Congress established for the Federal Radio Commission (the predecessor to the Federal Communications Commission) in the Radio Act of 1927 (44 Stat. 1162, chapter 169) and for the Federal Communications Commission in the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 151 et seq.); and (2) Congress deliberately and clearly designed the Federal Communications Commission to operate independent of executive influence and to be insulated from political influence to the greatest extent possible. ______