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March 30, 2008
Congress Takes Swing at Overturning FCC’s Ownership Rules
By Ira Teinowitz
tvweek.com
Congress gets its first opportunity to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s new media ownership rules this week, and the most likely prospect is that FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin will experience his first rebuff.
The big question isn’t whether the Senate Commerce Committee will vote on Wednesday to overturn the FCC’s proposal to let newspapers and broadcasters buy each other in a single city; it’s how far the legislation will get beyond the committee. With 13 co-sponsors, many of them members of the 23-member committee, legislation from Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., to overturn the FCC action seems pretty likely to move to the Senate floor.
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