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On the recordDecember 9, 2013
If this thing doesn't go swimmingly and if we were, Lord forbid, to have another major terrorist disaster and we had to get spectrum to the Government for purposes of national security, does the FCC have eminent domain power, that they could go and get spectrum for national security?
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Bill Nelson
Democratic · Florida

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Senator Nelson questions the FCC's powers in a national security crisis.

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