House Telecommunications & Internet Subcommittee chairman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said the Department of Justice's approval of the XM Satellite Radio-Sirius Satellite Radio merger without conditions was par for the course, but he told the Federal Communications Commission it should aim for more.

“The Bush administration has apparently never seen a telecommunications merger it doesn’t like," Markey said in a statement. "Its decision to approve the XM-Sirius merger without conditions is therefore unsurprising."

But he suggested that it would be an unpleasant surprise if the FCC followed suit.

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