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Patricia Schroeder: “I want to point out and correct the record again: First of all, it does not pass the straight-face test that one Senator…”

On the recordApril 6, 1995
I want to point out and correct the record again: First of all, it does not pass the straight-face test that one Senator of the minority party could force this entire House to yield to something the House never considered or the conferees on her side. There were 17 of these deals--18 of these deals--and this is the only one that stood. I cannot believe that one Senator has ever had that kind of power. Second, I want to point out that this $38 million revenue does go back to the sellor. The idea of this was to give the sellors benefits if they sold to minority owners. And the idea has been, we all were going to do away with those, going to do away with all of those. We found we did away with all of them except the one, and that owner happens to be Rupert Murdoch. He gets the benefit of this. So let us make the record perfectly clear.
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Patricia Schroeder
Colorado
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Addressing concerns about a specific deal benefiting Rupert Murdoch during a debate.

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