TV & VIDEO - Feb. 8, 1989

Rep. Tom Tauke (R-Iowa) predicts that Congress and the White House will cooperate more on telecommunications issues this year, and believes that President Bush is likely to sign legislation cutting back advertising on children’s TV shows. Tauke, a member of the House Energy and Commerce telecommunications and finance subcommittee, thinks Congress, the Bush Administration and the Federal Communications Commission want to move away from the conflicts that marked the final year of the Reagan administration. “It probably is indicative of what we might call the new openness in Washington right now,” he told a panel discussion at the Communications Networks ’89 exposition and trade show in Washington.