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Jon Kyl: “It is true that if a municipality, a county government or whatever, creates this monopoly they could be voted out of…”

On the recordMay 11, 1995
It is true that if a municipality, a county government or whatever, creates this monopoly they could be voted out of office. But is it not true that the U.S. Congress, by this legislation, will have created the situation where despite these people being voted out of office, the contract, under the bill as written--the contract term, or as long as it takes to refinance, or even the point at which the useful life ceases to exist, after it has been extended, up to 30 years--would still allow the monopoly to continue? So the candidates themselves may be defeated but that which they constructed, because we protected it, would continue to exist?
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Jon Kyl
Republican · Arizona

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Discussing the implications of legislation on municipal monopolies during Senate debate.

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