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Byron Dorgan: But some of this is happening in anticipation of us passing what my colleague and others have supported. In fact, some…

On the recordOctober 13, 1995
But some of this is happening in anticipation of us passing what my colleague and others have supported. In fact, some of these mergers now have more television stations involved than they are permitted to hold. Why would they do that? Because they know some in here have said we want to take the limits off the number of television stations you can own, so, because they are going to do that for us, we are going to start gearing up and have more stations than the current law allows. So they are anticipating what you are going to do for them. I am saying what you are going to do for them is not good for this country, that is the point.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of proposed changes to television station ownership limits.

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