The '''Motion Picture Association of America''' is the trade association for [[Hollywood]], and also the organization that rates movies in the [[United States]].
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The '''Motion Picture Association of America''' (MPAA) is a Washington DC-based trade association representing , and also the organization that rates movies in the [[United States]].
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the American motion picture, home video and television industry.<ref name=we>{{cite web|url=http://www.mpaa.org/our-story/|title=Our Story|accessdate=February 12, 2017}}</ref> William Hayes founded and led the MPAA starting in 1922.<ref name=we/> From 2004-2010, [[Dan Glickman]], who was previously [[Secretary of Agriculture]] led the MPAA.
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It has a budget of nearly $100 million and studio heads expressed "a rare sense of unanimity" when [[Democrat]] and former [[U.S. Senator]] [[Christopher Dodd]] was chosen in March 2011 -- only about two months after he left the [[U.S. Senate]] -- to be its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.<ref>http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/official-chris-dodd-lead-mpaa-162817</ref>
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It has a budget of nearly $100 million and studio heads expressed "a rare sense of unanimity" when [[Democrat]] and former [[U.S. Senator]] [[Christopher Dodd]] was chosen in March 2011—only about two months after he left the [[U.S. Senate]]—to be its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.<ref>https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/official-chris-dodd-lead-mpaa-162817</ref>