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This alleged distortion of election returns is what the Telecommunications Subcommittee has been studying. The chairman. Rep. Timothy E. Wirth (D-Colo.), sent a letter after the February 20 lowa caucuses to the presidents of the three major networks. In the letter, Wirth recommended that the networks show "restraint" in broadcasting election results before voters have cast their ballots. He also invited the network presidents to testify at hearings on the Monday preceding the New Hampshire primary, and the networks each sent a representative...
...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...
...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...