At least one Senate candidate wants to overhaul the...
At least one Senate candidate wants to overhaul the 1996 Telecom Act. Larry Pressler, a former Republican senator from South Dakota, is running for the state’s open Senate seat in the 2014 midterm elections as an independent. “I have repeatedly…
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stated that there should be a new Telecommunications Act every few years, and once again, we are long overdue,” Pressler wrote in a Saturday Argus Leader op-ed (http://argusne.ws/1jhojX8). “I have already announced that when I get back to the Senate, I shall immediately sponsor the Telecommunications Update Act of 2015, another much-needed piece of legislation that has not been created because of the poisonous partisan deadlock in Washington, but that as your Independent U.S. senator, I would be able to work with both parties to achieve.” Pressler is proud of his role in the 1996 act, when he was a U.S. senator, he said. Pressler chaired the Commerce Committee and authored the Senate version of the act, he said on his website (http://bit.ly/1xHDUlN).