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onenote

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6. As someone who has practiced before the FCC for more than three decades

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Thu May 10, 2012, 03:01 PM

May 2012

I wouldn't read too much -- or, for that matter, anything -- into Genachowski's statement. I can't think of a single occasion in more than 30 years in which an issue as to which a member of Congress has expressed an interest has been characterized by the FCC as anything other than something that the agency "takes seriously." They are empty words.

Sorry to be a wet blanket, but reality is what reality is.

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