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On the recordOctober 13, 1995
This Senator is not going to get into the business of forecasting what might happen. I am saying this is probably the biggest jobs bill we will pass. I just wanted to throw that in there. Do we repeal any of those antitrust acts that are now the law of the land? No. And, on spectrum, has it any value at all until someone makes the investment to make it valuable? And then does it become a property right? That is what we have to see. Those of us who live in the West--I think the Senator from North Dakota is very sound in his thinking, and understands the same values that I understand, because western North Dakota and eastern Montana are awfully a lot alike, on the way they think. But, if we took that case, basically, then maybe we should not have granted all that land to private ownership. Maybe we should have Government control all the way. In other words, I do not know how it is halfway/halfway/halfway. But I ask those questions. I would be concerned about concentration because I think we will finally get to a point where Justice will have to step in on the meatpacking industry. But we have the laws in place for them to do so. The same laws would apply to concentration here.

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Discussing the implications of a major jobs bill and antitrust laws.

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