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The senator's caveats and curlicues.

By |Posted Tuesday, June 15, 2004, at 11:07 AM

What did he say?
What did he say?

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Question: We have had an FCC chairman who's been a deregulator. I looked back in the records. You missed the vote in the Senate last fall which overturned his media ownership rules.

Kerry: Right 1. I wasn't there for the vote 2.

—C-SPAN interview, June 3, 2004

[1] but I declared myself completely in favor of it

[2] but I was 100 percent in favor of overturning his rules

Verbatim:

Right, but I declared myself completely in favor of it. I wasn't there for the vote, but I was 100 percent in favor of overturning his rules.

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