U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller is among the winners of the 2008 Jefferson Muzzle Awards given by a free-speech group.

The Virginia-based Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Freedom of Expression gives the awards annually to those it considers the past year's most egregious First Amendment violators. It announced the latest winners Tuesday.

Rockefeller made the list for introducing a bill that would require the Federal Communications Commission to maintain a policy that would make broadcasting a single word or image indecent, and therefore punishable.

The FCC also made the list. The commission received a Lifetime Muzzle for having won the award four times and for being in the running nearly each year of the awards' 17-year history, mostly over how it has defined broadcast indecency.

A Muzzle Award also went to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for staging a fake news conference during the southern California wildfires.