03/11/2014
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"I am kind of reaching back to a letter that I had sent to you earlier this year."
"So you are ensuring that throughout this process, we don't drop the ball in terms of that commitment, then?"
"I appreciate that commitment. I do recognize that this is imminent, that it should be out very, very quickly."
"Without this funding for rural service providers, service rates for our sparsely populated remote areas I think would increase to levels that I don't think would be acceptable."