Klobuchar Loses ‘Lame Duck’ Vote On JCPA. Is AMFA Dead, Too?

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End-of-year omnibus spending legislation arrived Tuesday on Capitol Hill, and there’s one noticeable trait the bill has when viewed from the lens of broadcast media leaders: the NAB-supported Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), championed by the advocacy and lobbying group and saved by author Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) after Texas Republican Ted Cruz nearly torpedoed it, is absent.


With the “JCPA” language not included in the omnibus bill, there will likely be no legislative action during this Congressional session.

At the same time, the much-ballyhooed but lightly supported American Music Fairness Act (AMFA), introduced by now-retired Democratic House Member Ted Deutch of Florida, appears to have also met its end.

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