"We believe a court would find the 'style, tenor and timing' of the (video news release [3]) to be 'promotional' in nature, thus triggering the requirement it be expressly authorized by statute," ruled the California state legislature's counsel, on a Schwarzenegger [4] administration VNR. The undersecretary of the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, which produced the VNR to support changes in workers' break guarantees [5], earlier said that "the administration's lawyers concluded the videos were permissible." The Schwarzenegger administration made at least four VNRs [6] without legislative authorization. In national news, the Federal Communications Commission has been asked [7] by Senators John Kerry [8] and Daniel Inouye [9] (both Democrats) to investigate the broadcasting of government-funded VNRs [10].