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Tammy Duckworth: “Am I correct that in opposing the Commission's efforts to protect families and inmates from outrageously high rates for…”

On the recordJuly 18, 2017
Am I correct that in opposing the Commission's efforts to protect families and inmates from outrageously high rates for calling services, you are not endorsing astronomically expensive prices, rather, you simply believe that Congress has not provided FCC with the authority to impose rate caps on intrastate prison calls?
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Tammy Duckworth
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Duckworth questions Chairman Pai about the FCC's authority on prison call rates.

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