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Bill Summary & Status for the 108th CongressNEW SEARCH | HOME | HELPH.R.3801Title: To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to repeal the requirement that persons making disbursements for electioneering communications file reports on such disbursements with the Federal Election Commission and the prohibition against the making of disbursements for electioneering communications by corporations and labor organizations, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep Bartlett, Roscoe G. [MD-6] (introduced 2/11/2004)      Cosponsors: 29Latest Major Action: 2/11/2004 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration. Jump to: Titles, Status, Committees, Related Bill Details, Amendments, Cosponsors, Summary...

Rep. Blunt Seeks Repeal of McCain-Feingold's Attack on Freedom of Speech WASHINGTON – The third-ranking member of the House Republican leadership is a co-sponsor of a bill to repeal the anti-free-speech sections of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance “reform” law. House Majority Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo., has signed on to the measure, just introduced, to “restore Americans’ First Amendment rights,” in the words of the prime sponsor of the repeal, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md. The very fact that a major player in the House GOP leadership would affix his name to Bartlett’s bill sends an unmistakable signal to the rank-and-file Republican...