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Partisan Bickering Erupts at Online Accessibility Hearing

Sparks flew at a hearing June 9 on HR 3101, The 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act, a bill that would update communications accessibility
provisions in the 1996 Communications Act and apply them to access to broadband.

Seeming to bely House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher's (D-Va.) introductory remarks about the bipartisan work being done on the bill,
some questioning from the bill's sponsor, Ed Markey (D-Mass.), drew criticism from ranking Republican Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) and prompted Republican Lee
Terry of Nebraska to say he felt he had been "politically slimed" by Markey.

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