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Tech: Cruz, Cantwell unsure on raising media cap

Leaders of the Senate Commerce Committee were cool to the idea Tuesday of the Federal Communications Commission raising the national media ownership cap. 

Commerce Committee Chair Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and his Democratic counterpart, Maria Cantwell (Wash.), appeared skeptical during a morning hearing that the Nexstar-Tegna merger, which would blow through the cap, increases competition in the media market.

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