Daniel Inouye: “I know this measure is so important to advancing Prince Kuhio's vision of returning our people to the aina.”

this CR funds the government for the next 6 months at a level agreed to by the Budget Control Act. It contains a minimum of anomalies and allows adequate funding for disaster relief. This is an inefficient way to fund our Federal…

. . . If [the FCC] identifies such unforeseen instances in which a lack of agreement results in a loss of local programming to viewers, the Commission should take the regulatory steps needed to address the problem.

Broadcasters should be allowed to negotiate for fair value and carriage of their signals.

Senator Inouye and the late Senator Stevens wrote the FCC stating that the Commission did indeed have authority to intervene.