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Joe Barton: “We don't need the program. We don't need it. It is not that it is a bad program.”

On the recordFebruary 26, 2013
We don't need the program. We don't need it. It is not that it is a bad program.
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Joe Barton
Republican · Texas

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Barton argues against the need for a broadband funding program.

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