Tom Wheeler: “Absent congressional action, there is no national program to improve public safety by applying the technology of…”

It is hard to understate the seriousness of something like this for two reasons. One, as has been pointed out, this is the people's money.

Congresswoman, the reality is that for decades, we have been regulating the use of network information in the telephone network saying a phone company cannot make it available to a third party without the consumers' permission.

We just had a $51 million judgment against a company called Total Call Mobile which was engaged in virulent fraud.

The big kick I get is that AT&T and the cable companies have been putting out statements that say, 'This is going to thwart innovation.' And I scratch my head and say, 'My goodness, let's see. When was the last time that competition…