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Lateefah Simon: back when we had the telecommunications bill up, I had an amendment that would have permitted some enlargement of…

On the recordJune 21, 1996
back when we had the telecommunications bill up, I had an amendment that would have permitted some enlargement of ownership in radio stations, but kept a cap on. The bill we passed took the cap off completely. In this morning's newspapers, on the front page of the New York Times and Washington Post, are stories about Westinghouse buying a huge chunk of American radio. The business section of the New York Times says: ``Westinghouse would own 32 percent of top markets.'' That is not a healthy thing. I would like to read the honor roll. I say to my colleagues on the other side, I regret there are only two Republicans listed here, because we end up in partisan mode so often in this body, and I am sure this is one of those cases where others might have voted with us if that had not happened.
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Lateefah Simon
California

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Discussing the impact of deregulation in the telecommunications industry and ownership concentration in radio.

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