The two companies have spent a combined $143.5 million lobbying Congress since 1989 on issues including telecommunications, technology, taxes and copyright.
Comcast, Time Warner And Congress: Perfect Together
Credit: garygrissom
April 10, 2014

Via Moyers & Company:

From left, Comcast Corporation Executive Vice President David Cohen, Time Warner Cable Inc. Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Arthur T. Minson Jr., Public Knowledge President and Chief Executive Officer Gene Kimmelman, Back9Network Chairman and Chief Executive Officer James L. Bosworth Jr., Spot On Networks Chief Executive Officer Richard Sherwin and University of Pennsylvania Law professor Christopher S. Yoo are sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

As the US Senate holds its first hearing on the proposed Comcast-Time Warner deal — ...

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