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Blogger Protection Act

by @ 9:19 on April 14, 2008. Filed under Politics - National, The Blog.

I should’ve pounced on this when Fausta had it almost 2 weeks ago, but it took Jon Ham’s catch of North Carolina’s lone co-sponsor to get me jumping. Rep. Jeb Hensarling introduced The Blogger Protection Act, H.R. 5699, on April 3. The bill is designed to put into the United States Code the current Federal Election Commission regulations that give bloggers the same protection from campaign finance laws given the rest of the media and declares advocacy by uncompensated bloggers does not constitute a contribution to a candidate.

There are currently 36 (37 if one counts the non-voting Puerto Rican representative) co-sponsors to this legislation, all Republicans. Paul Ryan is the only Wisconsin Representative among them. Where are the other 7? Where are the Democrats? Heck, where’s the Republican leadership; I see only Roy Blunt and Eric Cantor from the leadership team on the co-sponsor page.

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