Word: wirth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crammed itself into a Holiday Inn banquet room. As usual, the networks raced ahead of the results: ABC, the last to predict Mondale's landslide, did so 15 minutes after voting began. The early projections were considered spoilsport at best, electoral meddling at worst. Colorado Democrat Timothy Wirth, chairman of the House Telecommunications Subcommittee, urged the networks to show more restraint and invited them to testify before his panel this week...
...hustings, Walter Mondale, Reagan's likely Democratic opponent, charged that the President's speech "ducked" all the "central issues" by not offering specifics. That was exactly what Reagan intended. Marveled Democratic Congressman Tim Wirth of Colorado: "It was as brilliant a performance as I've ever seen, with strikingly little substance...
Fowler's principal foe in the regulatory forest is Colorado Democrat Timothy Wirth, chairman of the House Telecommunications Subcommittee. Wirth contends that Fowler has been far more vigorous in unshackling the brobdingnagians of broadcast row than in stimulating the entry of new entrepreneurs. Fowler's argument that content regulations constitute censorship and violate the First Amendment has one glaring flaw, says Wirth: the Supreme Court has consistently found them constitutional...
...local phone companies for access to long-distance lines. The monthly access charge would start at $2 and could rise to $6 or $7 by 1989. Businesses would pay $6 at the beginning. But the proposal is running into trouble. Legislation proposed by Colorado's Democratic Congressman Timothy Wirth and Oregon's Republican Senator Bob Packwood would eliminate the charge to private individuals and small businessmen and shift it back to AT&T and other long-distance phone companies. Theodore Brophy, chairman of GTE, calls the access charge "an unmanageable economic burden on those who make minimum...
...Wirth's bill passed the House last week, but Senate action is not expected until next year. In any case, the FCC last month delayed the fees until April 3 to give itself more time to study AT&T's arguments in favor of the surcharge...