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On the recordMarch 13, 1996
I want to point out how important the captioning is. But what a foolish way to spend money for captioning, when you could spend money to really help the people who need the captioning on programs that are meaningful and important to them, as far as their future life is concerned. I doubt whether 'Baywatch' is one of those.
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William F. Goodling
Pennsylvania

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Discussing the allocation of funds for captioning in television programming.

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