Brownback Urges FCC Not to Approve XM-Sirius Merger

Former presidential candidate Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kansas.) wrote Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin Thursday asking him not to approve the XM Satellite Radio-Sirius Satellite Radio merger. Sen Brownback said the Department of Justice made a mistake when it found nothing anticompetitive about the merger and warned against allowing a combination of companies "peddling obscene and indecent material." Sen Brownback pointed to the FCC's "prohibition" on two satellite-radio companies "ever merging" and its mandate that XM and Sirius produce interoperable radios.
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