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Youre recognized. Mr. Wyden mr. President , thank you. Mr. President , i rise today in opposition to the president s nomination of ajit pai to head the federal Communications Commission. My view is that, in particular, mr. Pai will do an enormous amount of damage to one of the foundational principles of the internet Net Neutrality and i am going to outline why that would be a horrendous mistake for our country. Mr. President , after we came to use the internet and see what an extraordinary asset it could be to our country, really beginning late in the 1990s, we laid out what i still consider to be the Legal Foundation for the internet. In other words, there was a lot of joking about who created the internet. The internet was being used and to see how beneficial it would be. And on a bipartisan basis, the senate and house to really lay out what were the foundational principles of the net for a variety of them. Mr. President , we wanted to make sure that folks werent hit with multiple an
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As a Washington, D.C., correspondent, I shared an office with The Seattle Times on the top floor of a Capitol Hill row house behind the U.S. Supreme Court building. One
As a Washington, D.C., correspondent, I shared an office with The Seattle Times on the top floor of a Capitol Hill row house behind the U.S. Supreme Court building. One