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Jo Ann Emerson

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Mar 4, 2012

I think it is important for us to ask, what is the cost-benefit analysis here and to weigh that very carefully and deliberately?

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Mar 4, 2012

I do not agree with you on that. Because, for example, our media buyers gave us all of that information in the last campaign instantaneously.

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Mar 4, 2012

Have you all done anything to address that particular piece of it, or fees and the like?

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Mar 4, 2012

I might add, Mr. Yoder, that often these things come about because the people who are writing the laws don't have a clue what it is like to work in the private sector.

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Mar 4, 2012

I think it is absolutely critical.

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Mar 4, 2012

We need to do the same on lots of different entitlements.

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Mar 4, 2012

First let me ask you, Chairman Genachowski, could you submit to us a list of the 200 regulations that you have eliminated?

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Mar 4, 2012

How do you suspect you will go through the process of trying to figure out whether or not some of those could be closed but not lose the functionality of what those people do?

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Mar 4, 2012

It always sounds easier, you know, on the surface, but when you kind of dig into it, sometimes I think we ask for more than we can expect to get.

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Mar 4, 2012

I am glad you brought this issue up because it is really important.

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Mar 4, 2012

I am just trying to help figure out; that way, you have more hands in in trying to get it all done.

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