03/21/2016
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"Most of us believe that, when these radio stations play this music, that there are people that still go out and buy records."
"But in modernizing the statutes, I'm determined that we do not do so in a way that diminishes the voice of minority broadcasters."
"Today's hearing on the Performance Rights Act of 2009, H.R. 848, is an important first step in finally addressing an issue that has remained unsolved for a number of years."
"No bill is a perfect bill and rarely is a bill enacted exactly as it is introduced. But H.R. 848 provides us with a good starting point."