On the recordMay 9, 1996
I rise today to take another step in my overall telecommunications and information policy reform agenda. As I have stated many times, the historic enactment earlier this year of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was only the first step in a new national telecommunications policy for 21st Century America. Today, I am putting out for public comment a discussion draft of spectrum reform legislation to institute comprehensive reforms in how the Federal Government uses--and fails to use--our most important valuable national resource, the radio frequency spectrum. The radio spectrum is to the information age what oil and steel where to the Industrial Age. Like any resource, it is finite. Therefore it must be managed responsibly. This valuable resource is one of the principle building blocks for tomorrow's 'Information Economy.' It also is critical to delivering new and valuable services to the American public.
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