[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 9 (Tuesday, January 17, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H249]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               WE ARE THE TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC AIRWAVES

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, Americans all know that when they hear a 
fox is guarding the chicken house, they should be very concerned. They 
soon are going to know that when a different kind of fox comes with 
their lobbyists to meet with the Speaker, they ought to also be 
concerned because the airwaves are supposed to be public. We now are 
learning more and more about Mr. Murdoch's meeting with his lobbyist, 
Mr. Murdoch representing the Fox Broadcasting Network, and how he is 
trying to get different privileges versus NBC, all of which are 
supposed to be on the public airwaves, which, of course, we are 
supposed to be trustees of. All that going on with the little book deal 
on the side.
  I think we need to get the cloud out of this Chamber that that has 
caused. We need to get it to a special prosecutor. We need to get on 
with it. And we really need to bring back the faith the American people 
have here that this is not a coin-operated legislative machine, that 
people can come as citizens and bring their petitions and that we truly 
are going to be the trustees of the public airwaves.


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