Mr. Speaker, again, to correct the Record, without the Markey amendment, the legislation, standing as it is, does not create any new standards to judge these licenses. The legislation codifies the words and the status quo, the old standard, the commission always used until December. It simply says that they will yield to the discretion of the religious broadcaster in its own programming, unless that discretion is exercised in an arbitrary or unreasonable manner, and they have always had that standard, that is, the standard in this bill.
William Tauzin: “Mr. Speaker, again, to correct the Record, without the Markey amendment, the legislation, standing as it is, does not…”
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