119 S 66
Transparency in Bureaucratic Communications Act
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
2025-01-09
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William Randolph Hearst 1863-1951
Hearst understood that narrative volume, sustained long enough, creates its own political reality independent of the underlying facts. The nine Iran War Powers resolutions — each generating a press release, a floor statement, and constituent communications — are a Hearstian narrative strategy: the goal is not to pass a bill but to own the story. The gas price tracker resolution (119hconres90) is the purest expression of this instinct — a bill that is literally about making price data visible. The risk Hearst always faced, and that today's sponsors face, is that narrative pressure without a legislative conversion mechanism eventually produces fatigue rather than action.
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Congressional Bills S. 98 and S. 1020 Signed into Law
On Monday, May 11, 2026, the President signed into law: S. 98, the “Rural Broadband Protection Act of 2025,” which requires the Federal Communications Commission to initiate a rulemaking proceeding to establish a vetting process for applicants for high-cost universal service prog
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@misc{apprised_119_s_66_transparency_in_bureaucratic_co,
title = {119 S 66: Transparency in Bureaucratic Communications Act},
publisher = {Apprised.news},
url = {https://apprised.news/bill/119s66},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-13}
}