These 126 members of Congress don’t think musicians deserve to get paid when they are played on the radio A resolution opposing “any new performance fee, tax, royalty, or other charge” on broadcast radio stations now has 112 cosponsors in the US House of Representative and 14 in the Senate. The Local Radio Freedom Act (LRFA) signals members of Congress’s opposition to any potential legislation that imposes new performance royalties on broadcast radio stations for music airplay. Unlike every other developed country in the world, under current US law, songwriters are paid when a song is played on the radio, but the performer of the song is not.