Gus's Terror TV Bill Passes the House

On Tuesday, the House overwhelmingly passed H.R. 2278 which would label certain Middle Eastern satellite providers of incendiary television programming as terrorist organizations, in an effort to prevent radical anti-Americanism from hitting the airwaves.

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Satellite operators who provide service to Middle Eastern channels which knowingly allow anti-American incitement on their airwaves better watch out. A new bill which targets Hezbollah, Hamas and other terrorist run television stations was overwhelmingly passed by the U.S. House of Representatives this week.

Authored by Florida Republican Congressman Gus Bilirakis, the bill seeks to designate satellite operators who provide service to stations with terrorist links and make them "Specially Designated Global Terrorists". It also calls on the President to annually report to Congress on anti-U.S. incitement to violence in the region and create a list of nations where such anti-American incitement to violence exists.

Rep. Bilirakis, who was joined by fellow Florida Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and New York Democrat Joseph Crowley as co-sponsors of the bill, told fellow legislators that "Instead of denouncing such incitement, many countries in the region effectively provide financial, material or technological support to the purveyors of incitement."

ABC Action News in Tampa featured the bill during their nightly newscast:

After passage of the bill Gus also joined Bay News 9 to discuss: