Congressional Resolutions Supporting Rural and Ag Programming

Both houses of the U.S. Congress have introduced resolutions in support of greater access to rural and agricultural media programming: SR 113 and HR 451.

Contact your state’s senators today and ask them to co-sponsor SR 113.

Contact your congressional representative today and ask them to co-sponsor HR 451.

On a recent Rural Town Hall, RFD-TV Founder Patrick Gottsch updated viewers on the Senate’s Resolution 712 (since re-introduced as SR 113), which had just been introduced in the U.S. Senate and backed by Republicans and Democrats alike. This represents significant progress in protecting agricultural news and rural content and has been nine years in the making.

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