roundtable: 1995-08-03 VP Gore Statement on Telecommunications Reform Bill (fwd)

roundtable: 1995-08-03 VP Gore Statement on Telecommunications Reform Bill (fwd)

1995-08-03 VP Gore Statement on Telecommunications Reform Bill (fwd)

Vigdor Schreibman - FINS (fins@access.digex.net)
Thu, 3 Aug 1995 22:34:58 -0400 (EDT) 

Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 22:34:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>
To: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>
Subject: 1995-08-03 VP Gore Statement on Telecommunications Reform Bill (fwd)
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950803223137.16834C-100000@access1.digex.net>


FYI

Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 21:17-0400
From: The White House <Publications-Admin@WhiteHouse.Gov>
To: Public-Distribution@clinton.ai.mit.edu
Subject: 1995-08-03 VP Gore Statement on Telecommunications Reform Bill



                            THE WHITE HOUSE

                      Office of the Vice President

________________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release                                     August 3, 1995



	      STATEMENT BY VICE PRESIDENT GORE ON H.R. 1555


   The telecommunications reform legislation being considered by the
House of Representatives is abhorrent to the public interest and our
national economic well-being.  Without significant changes to the
legislation, the President has said he will be compelled to veto it.

   In the early morning hours, the House today began debate on H.R.
1555.  They are expected to vote late tonight on the bill. It seems the
House does not want the American people to see or hear what's in this
legislation -- and for good reason. They couldn't support it if they knew
what H.R. 1555 contained.

   One person owning the majority of the media outlets in a community is
a threat to the very system of democracy upon which our society is built.

  And it is wrong. Raising cable rates on American consumers immediately
after the next elections to avoid responsibility is wrong.  Replacing
competition with consolidation in the cable and phone industries is
wrong. Preventing parents from having simple and cheap technologies to
block explicit sex and excessive violence from coming into their living
rooms to young children is wrong.

   Unfortunately, H.R. 1555, as reported by the Commerce Committee and
amended by the managers' amendment, does all of these things.  This bill
has been sold to the highest bidder in every telecommunications industry.

   The losers are the American people.

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