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Ron Johnson: “So possibly with a little bit more public notice, a more…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Sen. Johnson at the Senate Commerce Committee

Published | Video Starts at 06:01

That's because presumably they think the return on the investment is now greater in areas outside of the broadband infrastructure. And that's an unfortunate thing for the American consumer. So possibly with a little bit more public notice, a more robust record, maybe we would not have gone down this, what I think, very harmful path. I think the internal documents in your report prove that. If you look at the report, email after email suggests the FCC career staff, and I once was one of … (06:01–06:09)

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Suggests that more public notice and a robust record might have prevented a harmful path.

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