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Free Speech : Commercial Speech : Legislative Documents

Remove the Unconstitutional Limits on Using Names and Images of Soldiers from the Conference Report (11/09/2007)

Sign On Letter to the House of Representatives Urging Opposition to Efforts to Regulate Grassroots "Lobbying" (05/04/2007)

ACLU Letter to Members Urging Opposition to HR 3143, the International Consumer Protection Act (10/01/2004)

ACLU Comments to the Federal Communications Commission re: MB Docket No. 04-261, the Matter of Violent Television Programming and Its Impact on Children (09/15/2004)

ACLU Letter to the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Commitee Expressing Concerns about S. 2281, the VOIP Regulatory Freedom Act of 2004 (07/21/2004)

ACLU Letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime (06/16/2004)

ACLU Memo on the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime (06/16/2004)

Coalition Letter to House Judiciary Chairman Sensenbrenner and Ranking Member Conyers Expressing Concerns and Urging the Committee to Delay the Markup of H.R. 3754, "The Fraudulent Online Identity Sanctions Act" (05/04/2004)

ACLU Testimony of Marvin J. Johnson, Legislative Counsel, at a Hearing on the Committee Print to Amend the Federal Trademark Dilution Act Before the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property of the House Committee on the Judiciary (04/21/2004)

ACLU Letter to the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property Urging Members to Reject H.R. 3754, the Fraudulent Online Identity Sanctions Act (03/30/2004)

ACLU Letter to the Senate Urging Opposition to S. 2056, the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 (03/23/2004)

ACLU Letter to the House Expressing Concerns about H.R. 3717, the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 (03/02/2004)

ACLU Letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee Urging Opposition to H.R. 3261, the Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act (03/02/2004)

ACLU Letter to the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet Expressing Concerns About H.R. 3717, the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 (02/10/2004)

ACLU Letter to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Urging Opposition to the "Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act" (09/15/2003)

Letter to the Senate Urging Support of S.J. Res. 17, Disapproving the Rule Submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with Respect to Broadcast Media Ownership (09/15/2003)

Letter to the Senate Urging Opposition to S.877, the "Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003" (07/30/2003)

Letter to the Federal Communications Commission on the 2002 Biennial Regulatory Review of the Commission's Broadcast Ownership Rules and Other Rules Adopted Pursuant to Section 202 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, MB Docket No. 02-277 (05/22/2003)

Statement for the Record to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on FDA Regulation of Tobacco (09/18/2002)

Interested Persons Memo: Analysis of S. 630, Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2001 or the CAN SPAM Act of 2001 (05/15/2002)

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