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i am a songwriter and member of ascap. you for inviting me to testify as a voice for professional songwriters supporting the music modernization act. most of you have no idea who i am but i am part of a special community who works in the shadows of the spotlight to create music we all of. i wrote my first song about a crash i had on a girl in my high school english class and i knew i had found my calling. i have written thousands of songs, most of which will go unheard. i was a 10 year, overnight hit by, in my first carrie underwood. now antebellum's need you was my late latest hit. while creating music is my passion, it is also my job. everyday, i office write song after song because hit songse or two these days does not forever pay the rent or feed the family. unlike recording artists, songwriters make no revenue off tors, merchandise or endorsement. a songwriter could make a decent income on sales of albums but that is a relic of the past. people do not buy music anymore, they stream it. public performance royalties whi

there are two other pros besides ascap and bmi, csac and gmr, not regulated by consent decrees. a free market. and so, songwriters who belong to ascap and bmi are now in a competitive disadvantage against writers who are at the other two pros because there are different rules that apply. and so, if there is a desire to regulate this right, then congress should do that, but absent that, the justice department has no justification for a perpetual consent decree that never ends, when it was clear in 1979, the department concluded that consent decrees should sunset every ten years. and for some inexplicable reason, they didn't apply that retroactively. >> well, my time is expired, but i would just make the point that the review was conducted in 2016. the determination was made that the consent decrees still were justified by the facts existing then. the facts have not changed since then. and so, the message for me, at least, to the department of justice is to keep these consent decrees in place while congress is hopefully going to legislate. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, se