The broadcasting lobby may be extremely powerful and vocal, but they do not get to make the ultimate determination of how Americans use this critical national resource.

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The interests of the status quo will always have the most vocal and powerful defenders at every level of government.

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Vocal and politically powerful aviation interests have argued that the budget cuts affecting their industry would hurt business, travelers and cost jobs.

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The second was a show of deference to Hiroshi Okuda, Toyota's chairman, who heads the Keidanren, a powerful business federation, which stands for company management and is a vocal advocate of both lower labour costs and wage-bargaining reform.

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