No to Downsizing Closed Caption

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"Mr. Bush, I am a REPUBLICAN and I VOTED for you, and now you decide to do THIS to me. How can you do this to us? May you become deaf and understand why we need closed captions!"

"please be fair to disabiled awhile many of them tired of fight and just do it for us"

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"I really need CC very much. It is important to read theCC on the tv. God bless you all!"

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"Close-captioning is a necessity especially for news programs and emergency broadcasts. All too often the deaf population is left out of these important public service messages. They are unable to obtain this critical information by word-of-mouth or radio "

"deaf people have suffered enough!"

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"Hey, we need the captioning. No one wants to be anticipating watching a favorite program only to find the sound is suddenly turned off, or that everyone is speaking an unknown language. TV prgramming will make more money with more interested viewers."

"This isn't fair. I agree with the other people who have commented that deaf people learn through CC. It's just as if the audio has been taken away from the TV and the kids cannot hear. They won't learn either."

"We need closed caption with out it were lost."

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"My wife is Deaf, and I am a member of the armed forces. I support our President on almost everything but not on the downsizing of closed caption!"

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"captioning has opened the world to deaf people. Stopping it in any way is discriminatory.It would hinder their ability to truely mainsteam into all aspects of life"

"mother of deaf daughter, and son-inlaw"

"we (Deaf) need the closed caption, since we (Deaf) could not hear the voice and hardly to understand with lipreading."