http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Telecommunications_Act_of_1996
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The consumer activist Ralph Nader referred to these concessions as "one of the single biggest giveaways in U.S. corporate welfare history." ^[3] The spectrum was estimated to be worth between $11 billion and $70 billion. ^[4] Even the onetime GOP presidential candidate, former Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kansas, came out vehemently against the handout: "We don't give away trees to newspaper publishers. Why should we give away more airwaves to broadcasters?" he wrote in a 1997 editorial published in The New York Times. "The airwaves are a natural resource. They do not belong to the broadcasters, phone companies or any other industry. They belong to the American people." ^[5]

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Intellectual_Property_Protection_Act_of_2007
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