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Tough Media Critic Exits Senate

  • B&C, Wednesday, January 6, 2010 10:18 PM
Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) will not run for re-election next year, which means one of the media industry's most vocal critics in Congress is leaving. Dorgan, a long-time member of the Commerce Committee, has been a big proponent of network neutrality. He co-sponsored network neutrality legislation in the last Congress.

Dorgan has also been a leading opponent of media consolidation. At one junction, he tried to block the FCC from instituting deregulatory changes via an unusual legislative gambit.He has been lauded by public interest groups as an "Internet champion."

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