Mundt–Ferguson Communist Registration Bill

The Mundt–Ferguson Communist Registration Bill was a proposed law that would have required all members of the Communist Party of the United States register with the Attorney General.

The bill was first introduced in 1948 as house resolution 5852, at which time it was known as the Mundt-Nixon bill It was passed by the United States House of Representatives, but the United States Senate did not act on it.

It was re-introduced two years later, as the Mundt-Ferguson bill (also known as the Subversive Activities Control Bill) and met with a similar fate - it was passed by the House of Representatives but failed in the Senate. Pat McCarran then took many of the provisions from the Mundt-Ferguson bill and added them to a bill of his own writing. That bill, the McCarran Internal Security Act, passed by a large margin.

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• http://everything2.com/title/The+Nixon-Mundt+Bill