Sec. 2. Findings
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Congress finds the following: On May 9, 2013, President Barack Obama issued Executive Order 13642 (78 Fed. Reg. 28111 (May 14, 2013)), which made open and machine-readable data the new default for Federal Government information. Open data principles are essential for transparency and efficiency in government. In 2012, the Federal Communications Commission required television broadcast stations to post on an online database hosted by the Commission certain materials in the files that those stations are required to maintain and make available for public inspection, including important information about the purchasing of political advertisements.
In 2016, the Commission extended the online public inspection file requirement to providers of cable and satellite television service, radio broadcast stations, and providers of satellite radio service. The Commission declined to require those materials to be machine-readable, deciding at the time that it was more important to get the information online faster. Machine readability is a critical component of open government and provides interested parties with the necessary access to evaluate data in a more comprehensive way.
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