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U.S. Congress

These are a few examples of items in our Federal Documents collection. Many more are available online and in our building.

Recording Industry Marketing Practices : A Check-Up by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
Call Number: CSL Fed Docs Y 4.C 73/8:107-132 also online

Publication Date: 2002

See catalog record for link to text version.
Full title: Recording industry marketing practices : a check-up : hearing before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, October 9, 2002.
Labels and Lyrics : Do Parental Advisory Labels Inform Consumers and Parents? by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Call Number: CSL Fed Docs Y 4.C 73/7:S.HRG.105-1060

Publication Date: 2000

Online at Hathi Trust - scroll down their page for access
Full title: Labels and lyrics : do parental advisory labels inform consumers and parents? : hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, second session, June 16, 1998.
Record Labeling by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Call Number: CSL Fed Docs Y 4.C 73/7:S.hrg.99-529

Publication Date: 1985 [i.e. 1986]

Online at Hathi Trust - scroll down their page for access
Full Title: Record labeling : hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, on contents of music and the lyrics of records, September 19, 1985.
Music Lyrics and Commerce by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Competitiveness.
Call Number: Online and CSL Fed Docs Y 4.EN 2/3:103-112

Publication Date: 1994

Online at Internet Archive and some of our subscription databases.
Full title: Music lyrics and commerce : hearings before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Competitiveness of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, February 11 and May 5, 1994.
Public Law 109-235 Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005
Call Number: AE 2.110:109-235

Publication Date: 2006

Full title: An Act to Increase the Penalties for Violations by Television and Radio Broadcasters of the Prohibitions against Transmission of Obscene, Indecent, and Profane Language.
H.R.3889 - Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act of 1988
Publication Date: 1988

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Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act and Pornography Victims Protection Act of 1987 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary.
Call Number: Online and CSL Fed Docs Y 4.J 89/2:S.hrg.100-1083

Publication Date: 1990

Online through HathiTrust.
Full title: Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act and Pornography Victims Protection Act of 1987 : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, second session, on S. 703 ... S. 2033 ... June 8, 1988.
Broadcast Indecency Enforcement Act of 2005 : report (to accompany H.R. 310) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office) by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Call Number: CSL Fed Docs Y 1.1/2:Serial 14977 (H.Rept. 109-5)

Publication Date: 2005

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