Doyle Sees Broadband Allies in Clinton, Obama
Vice Chairman of House Telecommunications & Information Subcommittee Is Also Uncommitted Superdelegate in Pennsylvania
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 4/18/2008 7:57:00 AM EDT
As an uncommitted superdelegate in Pennsylvania, home of next week's potentially make-or-break primary, Democratic Rep. Mike Doyle has been a popular fellow with the Democratic presidential candidates of late.
And as the vice chairman of the House Telecommunications & Information Subcommittee, some of those discussions have been about telecommunications policy, he told C-SPAN in an interview for The Communicators.
"I have had the opportunity to sit down with both Sen. [Hillary] Clinton [D-N.Y.] and Sen. [Barack] Obama [D-Ill.]," he said. "In fact, I'm getting ready to change my cell-phone number.” With two weeks left in the Pennsylvania primary, he added, "I hear from them a little bit more than I'd like to."
Doyle continued, "I think both of them understand the importance of encouraging innovation and that the best way to do that is to have competition. I feel very confident that both of these candidates are going to encourage the type of policies that will help us grow the internet and broadband."
For Doyle, those are policies that encourage open access. "We want to see broadband deployment across every part of this country,” he said. “We want it to be accessible, we want it to be affordable, and we want it to grow.”
Doyle added, "I'm satisfied that we have allies in the White House on that regard" if either Obama or Clinton are elected.
But he said he didn't expect any major telecommunications legislation before the election.
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