Political Quotes

“Last week the Congress took another important step toward extending the Satellite Home Viewer Act when the Senate passed S. 1485, the Satellite Compulsory License Extension Act. This bill will extend the statutory compulsory copyright license for satellite home viewing for another 5 years. When I announced my cosponsorship of this bill on March 3, I came to the Senate floor and asked my colleagues to move promptly to reassure the thousands of families in Vermont and millions of households nationwide that their home satellite dishes would not go dark at the end of this year. Well, the Senate has acted. I rise to thank my Senate colleagues for their attention to this important measure. In the last 10 weeks, under the able leadership of Senator DeConcini, the Senate Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks marked up the bill and passed it unanimously, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously reported it favorably to the full Senate and now the Senate has passed it by voice vote and without objection. I now urge our House colleagues to act promptly and adopt this consensus bill.”