Byron Dorgan: “My point is on both areas of this bill. One is the trigger of when you have competition in the local telephone exchange…”

“My point is on both areas of this bill. One is the trigger of when you have competition in the local telephone exchange so the monopoly carriers there, the Bell systems, are allowed to go out and compete against long-distance carriers. That trigger is a trigger that does not have the active participation of the Justice Department determining when there is competition. So you have, in my judgment, largely eliminated or limited Justice's role. Second, my point is we have affirmatively changed the law in this legislation that says: We used to say you can only own 12 television stations in this country because we thought that was in the public interest, but, guess what, we have folks here generous enough to believe you ought to be able to own as many as you like, the sky is the limit. Both of those changes, both of those actions taken by this Chamber, in my judgment, move against the public interest. That is the point of it. The fact is, there are things in this bill that are good. I agree with that. And we ought to do a bill. I agree with that. But you move this bill with those provisions in it forward and it is going to get vetoed and it ought to get vetoed.”