Representative Michael Oxley (R-OH) has introduced a bill that could kill the LPFM issue. Ironically titled "Radio Broadcasting Preservation Act of 1999" the bill is otherwise known as HR 3439. The basic premise of HR 3439 is:
"To prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from establishing rules authorizing the operation of new, low power FM radio stations."
Of course, NAB President/CEO Eddie Fritts applauded the bill and called the FCC's LPFM actions a "misguided initiative." Not only that, Fritts and the NAB have issued a letter (pdf format) to all NAB members urging them to get their Representatives to sign the bill. You make the call as to if the letter is full of truth or scare tactics.

Perhaps Oxley's bill should come as little surprise -- look at who gives money to Oxley:

http://www.opensecrets.org/candidates/pac/H2OH04032.htm

Co-sponsors on the bill so far are:
Cliff Stearns (R-FL): representing areas north of metro Orlando, including Gainesville and Ocala, plus western portion of metro Jacksonville
Barbara Cubin (R-WY): representing all of Wyoming
Robert Ehrlich (R-MD): representing areas north and east of Baltimore, including Timonium and Dundalk
Vito Fossella (R-NY): representing Staten Island and part of Brooklyn
Harold Rogers (R-KY), who represents the southeastern quarter of Kentucky
Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ): representing areas south and southwest of New York City, from Long Branch to New Brunswick . Representative Pallone is the first (and so far only) Congressional Democrat to oppose Low Power Radio.

Want to give your input on this bill? Contacting your elected officials is quite simple. Go to the Project Vote Smart website for all the contact info you might need! You can also call them toll-free at 1-888-VOTESMART.

Visit the Amherst Alliance site for more info, such as:

This is an URGENT matter. PLEASE do 3 THINGS -- as soon as you possibly can:

1. Contact your legislator in the House of Representatives IMMEDIATELY.
Let him or her know that you are STRONGLY OPPOSED to the Oxley/Stearns bill -- and/or to any similar proposals that would pre-empt or restrict the current FCC deliberations on Low Power Radio. Ask him or her to GO ON THE RECORD for Low Power Radio -- and against the Oxley/Stearns bill. Also let him or her know that you will keep track of what he or she does on this issue.

2. Contact each of your SENATORS also.
While action on Low Power Radio has been "bubbling over" in the House, the Senate has been quiet. This suggests the possibility of an "end run" by the NAB -- such as a quiet but deadly paragraph, slipped secretly into an obscure and/or complicated Senate bill, while the Low Power Radio movement focuses on the VISIBLE action in the House. We MUST make sure this doesn't happen. So PLEASE alert your Senators to this possibility. Urge them to GO ON THE RECORD as Low Power Radio supporters -- AND urge them to "keep their eyes open."

3. If you have connections to your local media -- or to any media, for that matter -- now is the time to activate those connections. David and Goliath stories don't get any better than this! Goliath is challenged by David on his own turf -- the FCC -- and, in spite of the odds, is brought to the brink of defeat. NOW Goliath bellows to Congress that his pending defeat should be erased before it happens! How much more drama can a story have?