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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NOVEMBER 19, 1999
McCAIN: SATELLITE TV BILL SHORTCHANGES CONSUMERS
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Committee
on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today made the following
statement
on the satellite TV bill:
``I went into the satellite television conference with high hopes
of removing
the legal barriers that prevent satellite TV companies from giving
their
customers better service and from competing more effectively with
cable
TV monopolies. Sadly --but not surprisingly --the satellite TV legislation
became simply another legislative goody bag, full of special provisions
for special interests. Some of these ...