William Tauzin: “Let me indeed indicate that this is but one step. Our staff and our committee, our chairman and our ranking member, are…”

“Let me indeed indicate that this is but one step. Our staff and our committee, our chairman and our ranking member, are indeed to be commended for taking us down the right path. We have much work to do. I want to pledge to my colleagues as we complete work on this bill that they will hear and see from the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) and I again as we approach the date of March next year when cable is set to be deregulated. We will be presenting, hopefully, for this House to consider, various options on how to make sure competition is really available for the American consumer, who, in many parts of America, is given one choice when it comes to cable, take it or leave it. That is not a good American choice. In a good American marketplace it means various choices, good prices, better service. That is the kind of marketplace the Committee on Commerce is committed to developing for the television consumers of America, and we will not stop until that is done.”