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Maria Cantwell: I rise, obviously, to encourage my colleagues here. This is an issue we dealt with before. While media consolidation…

On the recordMay 15, 2008
I rise, obviously, to encourage my colleagues here. This is an issue we dealt with before. While media consolidation might be good for Wall Street, it is not good for Main Street. The diversity of voices has been a key component to our society, and preserving them by making sure we don't have a consolidation of media is very important. I urge my colleagues to disapprove of the FCC rule on media consolidation.
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Maria Cantwell
Democratic · Washington

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Addressing the issue of media consolidation and urging disapproval of an FCC rule.

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