I hope the courts will rebuff them again.

the principle purpose of the FCC is to allocate spectrum and to try to find the most efficient way to do that; that spectrum is public property

I think the FCC has been on mission creep for decades now.

I am a States' rights guy, so I would tread lightly there because the Federal Government, in my opinion, should be a limited Federal Government.

We are with you on that, too.

Politics is the art of the possible.

I am kind of sending the shot over the bow that it is really time, after 6 or 8 years, for the industries to get together and sit down and work out their differences on these issues so that we can move patent reform forward.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

With $150 billion in taxpayer funds already spent propping up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and hundreds of billions more a possibility, it is clear that this will be the most expensive Federal bailout in response to the financial crisis.

We have to make decisions about budgeting and make decisions about strategic needs of this nation.

It is absolutely unacceptable to get a 30-year shipbuilding plan or a 30-year aviation plan after the point where this body makes decisions.

Chairman Hastings, thank you for holding this important oversight hearing.

The Obama administration has put this up at a higher priority because it is so important.

What we often forget, it is not just the dissidents, but it is their families who share in the cruelty meted out by the Chinese dictatorship.

I would again make my appeal to the President, to the Press Corps, be public. Don't namby pamby, don't walk on egg shells.

I wonder if, when the toasts are made later on tonight and there is all of this hoopla around a state dinner that all of that kind of like simmers into the background and what message have we sent?

I think it has been pretty clear to most of us that the Chinese have really woefully been weak in addressing the theft of intellectual property.

Simply talking about deficit reduction does not get us anyplace.