It’s important to Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., that the government...
It’s important to Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., that the government doesn’t “stop you” from being “allowed to remain competitive,” he said at the American Cable Association conference in Washington Wednesday. He predicted “we're done with tax policy for a while”…
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and current spending limits “will stick.” Blunt reiterated in his speech and in answering a question from the audience by ACA CEO Matt Polka that he doesn’t want federal money used to overbuild existing broadband networks. “Other than must-pass stuff” that lapses without legislative action, “ain’t nothing that’s going to get done that’s not fo’ sho,” said Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga. “If it takes an act of Congress to direct a regulation, we're in trouble,” given the “snail’s pace” of movement in that body, he said in a speech and Q-and-A that followed Blunt. Partisanship is bad for oversight of agencies, Barrow said. Members of Congress “are more interested in fighting among themselves than actually cooperating to oversee these agencies,” he said. Congress is “more screwed up than it has to be and it was designed to be at the outset,” because extremely partisan House legislators are now more numerous, not because they're more dogmatic in their politics, Barrow said. Congress “is unrepresentative of the country as whole,” but is representative of “the extreme liberal base” and the conservative equivalent, he said. Members of Congress are “products of a hyperpartisan selection process,” he said.