Jack Fields: “I personally do not think it is going to work, and I think in countries like Zimbabwe and Tanzania, it, first of all, is…”

thanks to an amendment offered last year by the gentleman from Colorado [Mr. Schaefer], and adopted by the committee, the bill today requires local governments that choose to impose franchise fees to do so in a fair and equal way to tell…

this is a reregulatory dinosaur. Basic cable rates continue to be regulated under this bill. We deregulate expanded basic in 15 months, when telephone will be competing with cable. But very importantly, in terms of competition with…

I was given the charge by our Speaker and the chairman of the full committee to move our country relative to telecommunication policy into the 21st century, not to crawl back into the 1950's. These rules were written when I was 2 years…

this morning, I introduced on behalf of myself, Chairman Tom Bliley, our Republican Members, and Democrat cosponsors, the Communications Act of 1995. Hearings are planned for Wednesday, May 10, Thursday, May 11, and Friday, May 12. Truly…