Roy Blunt: “Then if the Congress later decides that they want to limit the speech of the news media, why could you not do that? Why…”

“Then if the Congress later decides that they want to limit the speech of the news media, why could you not do that? Why could you not limit the coverage that news organizations give in the last days of the campaign? Why could you not require that they list their advertisers, list their owners, list all the information that the Congress might decide needs to be listed as part of the speech of the media? This is an amendment that the sponsor said was necessary to do many of the things that the legislation that we will be dealing with in the next few weeks would do. But now nobody is for the amendment. The sponsors are not for the amendment. They are going to vote ``present.'' They are going to vote ``no.'' Nobody is for the amendment that only months ago was seen as a necessary element to do the kinds of legislation that we are talking about doing today.”