"I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially. [...] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."
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People from IndianapolisMembers of the United States SenateHarvard University alumniRepublican Party (United States) politiciansUniversity of California, Los Angeles alumni
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Speech before the Senate on network neutrality (June 28, 2006).
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Ted Stevens
Theodore Fulton "Ted" Stevens (November 18, 1923 - August 9, 2010) was an American politician.
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