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On the recordJuly 15, 2014
Yet these mergers, essentially media mergers and telecommunications, railroads and airlines, just to name a few--a lot of folks around here do not like the word 'regulation,' but I suspect some folks who come from rural states recognize that the deregulation of the airline industry was a massive assault on rural America and small town America.
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Jay Rockefeller
Democratic · West Virginia

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Rockefeller critiques deregulation's negative impact on rural America.

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