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Ted Cruz: “The legal regime governing these issues and the Commission's…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Sen. Cruz Delivers Remarks on Oversight of the Federal Communications Commission

Published | Video Starts at 03:42

But there is plenty more work to be done. Given the rapid pace of evolution in technology and telecommunications, it is a wonder that The legal regime governing these issues and the Commission's role in regulating them has largely not been updated since 1996. And there are any number of issues from the utility of the so called public interest standard in the modern era to retransmission consent rules in the streaming era to the current media ownership caps, where a statutory update might be worthwhile. (03:42–03:52)

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