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On the recordJune 30, 2014
We cannot build thousands of new needed businesses, we cannot have top-notch education for our kids, we cannot get America out of the economic rut it is in when the one tool that can help make it all happen is controlled by a handful of communications and media giants whose main concern is the bottom line of the company's quarterly report.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Leahy critiques media monopolies hindering economic growth and education.

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