Political Quotes

“on Thursday, March 3, 1994, I came to the Senate floor to reassure the thousands of families in Vermont and millions of households nationwide that Congress was not about to pull the plug on home satellite dish reception. I return today to mark our progress toward extending the Satellite Home Viewer Act of 1988. On March 24, the Senate Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks amended and voted unanimously to report S. 1485 to the Senate Judiciary Committee. This bill now moves on for consideration by the full Judiciary Committee and should be on the Senate calendar before much longer. Four members of the Judiciary Committee are cosponsors and nine members have now voted for the bill. I commend the leadership of the Chairman of the Subcommittee and the ranking Member, the distinguished senior Senators from Arizona and Utah, respectively. They know full well how important satellite dish reception is to those within their States. For the rest of our colleagues, I respectfully suggest that areas served by satellite technology are not limited to the mountains of Vermont and our expansive western States. We all have rural areas in our home States. We all have constituents whose television reception is dependent on satellite technology, who cannot receive network broadcast signals due to distance or terrain, and for whom cable is not a viable alternative.”