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William Tauzin: “What we learned in the subcommittee yesterday was that, with new FCC findings, some 220,000 American citizens who are…”

On the recordFebruary 25, 1999
What we learned in the subcommittee yesterday was that, with new FCC findings, some 220,000 American citizens who are scheduled to be terminated from network signal delivery are, in fact, qualified to receive those signals legally under the act. What we are announcing today is the filing of a moratorium bill, with the support of the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Bliley) and the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) and a lot of other members of our committee and Members of this Congress, a moratorium bill to give us 90 days to work this problem out without unnecessarily cutting off Americans from network programming delivered by satellite. It is intolerable that over 200,000 citizens would be terminated in that service without giving them a chance to qualify under the act according to the FCC's new findings.
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William Tauzin
Republican · Louisiana
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Addressing the impact of a Federal court order on satellite television access for consumers.

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