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Frank Pallone: Simply put, the government should not be in the business of regulating the rates of private industry and that is a…

On the recordJanuary 11, 2016
Simply put, the government should not be in the business of regulating the rates of private industry and that is a lesson that we learn when we look at failed governments of the 1980s in the past in terms of regulating private industry.
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Frank Pallone
Democratic · New Jersey

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Pallone argues against government regulation of broadband rates.

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