A Bill to Stop Taxpayer Funded Government Propaganda: Our bill will shut down the Administration's propaganda mill once and for all.
Propaganda had its place in Saddam's Iraq. Propaganda was a staple of the old Soviet Union. But covert government propaganda has no place in the United States Government.
Public Relations and Propaganda: Restrictions on Executive Agency Activities: Controversies recently have arisen over certain executive branch agencies? expenditures of appropriated funds on public relations activities, some of which have been characterized as propagandistic. Generally speaking, there are two legal restrictions on agency public relations activities and propaganda. 5 U.S.C. 3107 prohibits the use of appropriated funds to hire publicity experts. Appropriations law ?publicity and propaganda? clauses restrict the use of funds for puffery of an agency, purely partisan communications, and covert propaganda. No federal agency monitors federal public relations activities, but a Member or Committee of Congress may ask the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to examine an agency?s expenditures on public relations activities with a view to their legality. Any effort to reform current statutory restrictions on agency public relations activities will face two challenges: defining ?propaganda? and tracking public relations activities by agencies.
