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Ed Whitfield: “Reclaiming my time, I think all of us are very much concerned about any ads that run without a disclaimer. I talked to…”

On the recordJune 19, 1998
Reclaiming my time, I think all of us are very much concerned about any ads that run without a disclaimer. I talked to some FEC lawyers yesterday about that very point; and it is my understanding that if an ad like that runs anywhere without a disclaimer, they can go to the Federal Communications Commission because they have a law and regulations that prohibit those type of ads. I agree with the gentleman that we do not need ads running on television or anywhere else that does not have a disclaimer on them. But the FEC does have some rules that disclaimers are required.
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Ed Whitfield
Republican · Kentucky

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Discussing the importance of disclaimers in political advertising.

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