Dole proposes regulation end; panel deadlocked on Hollings. (Senate, Minority Leader Bob Dole; Commerce Committee Chairman Senate Ernest F. Hollings)
Multichannel News, July, 1994 by Hearn, Ted
WASHINGTON -- Amidst the backdrop of a deadlock on telecommunications legislation in the Senate, Minority Leader Robert Dole last week proposed repealing the 1984 and 1992 Cable Acts. Under Dole's plan, the federal government regulation of the cable industry would be dead and buried. Dole's plan came as Senate negotiators remained stalemated over key provisions of a broad telecommunications bill sponsored by Commerce Committee Chairman Sen.
Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.). Late last week, both industry and Capitol Hill sources said that many issues had not been resolved. While the Senate's summer recess, beginning Aug. 15, looms, there is a backlog of appropriations bills to pass, as well as health care reform still in hot debate. A communications industry...
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