06/22/2010
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"Congress has facilitated the growth of the cable and satellite industries by providing a statutory license to retransmit broadcast television to consumers."
"I urge the Committee to work to assure that residents of rural areas such as the area I represent receive satellite television at reasonable cost with programming relevant to the State of Vermont, the..."
"Thanks to the Leahy provision added in the 2004 reauthorization, DirecTV subscribers in Bennington and Windham counties do have access to Vermont television stations."
"The origins of the conflict arise from decades of the Sinhalese majority's systematic discrimination against the Tamil minority, and its denial of the Tamils' meaningful participation in the political..."