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H.R. 310, Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005 (introduced Jan. 25, 2005; passed House 389 to 38 on Feb. 16, 2005)
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H.R. 3717, Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 (introduced Jan. 21, 2004; passed House 391 to 22 on March 11, 2004)
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"An Indecent Attack on the First Amendment," statement by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) opposing the Broadcast Indecency Act of 2004.
Testimony of Robert Corn-Revere on FCC Enforcement of the Broadcast Indecency Standard before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, Jan. 28, 2004. [Editor’s Note: This is an encyclopedic overview of the indecency standard - history, application, First Amendment implications, court challenges, etc.]

S. 616, Indecent and Gratuitous and Excessively Violent Programming Control Act of 2005 (introduced March 14, 2005)
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S.193, Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005 (introduced Jan. 26, 2005)
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S. 2056, Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 (introduced Feb. 9, 2004, passed 99-1 as an amendment to S. 2400, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005, June 22, 2004)
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Text as passed June 22 (same as original version of S. 2056)