In my professional view, this transaction would deny the United States reliable and secure access to a vital - and, as a practical matter, irreplaceable - world-wide telecommunications infrastructure.

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It resides where every important social advance has always resided - with the American people themselves, with well informed American families, making practical decisions to address their imperatives for better health and more secure prosperity.

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