I wish to applaud your leadership and that of Senators McCaskill, Markey, King, and Wyden, in introducing the Community Broadband Act of 2015.

So basically, with all that being said, you know in a rural area, rural states, we're a little bit leery of how much better you want to make it for us.

I am appalled that a corporate giant which itself does not have a single wireless customer has attempted to use small business discounts to box out the very companies that Congress intended the program to benefit and to rip off American…

I think we are going to have to have more conversation about that.

So where do you think the EPA may come down on that issue?

Unfortunately, the Commission's adoption of those proposals as well as an arbitrage-enabling waiver it granted on a party-line vote prior to the AWS-3 auction sent precisely the wrong signal to large companies.

the bill proposed by Representative McKinley would run us off this road and drag us into a dark and dangerous detour where almost none of the protections of the new EPA rule would survive intact.

Bottom line, this legislation provides certainty while the December ruling left the industry still scratching their heads.

It is a draft legislation, draft piece. We are going to be working with this, and we are going to make some other modifications, I am sure, to it.

If I can get to three questions, I would like to handle it that way. I am still somewhat troubled by the preamble, about the possibility of a slip, that there could be some consideration as a result of that.

This draft legislation guarantees that every state must, not may, must have a Coal Ash Permit Program.

I would really like to spend more time back in that first because that issue of spreading salt we know is doing damage.

For 35 years, Congress has been wrestling with how to handle fly ash.

I think we're on the same wavelength.

the underpinning of broadband policy today is that competition is the most effective tool for driving innovation, investment, and consumer and economic benefits.

I have a pretty good world right now. Can I make it better without throwing the baby out with the bathwater and losing the protections that I've got?

America has been committed to the ideal of universal service for over a century.

This is such an interesting topic and you know I keep thinking back to those who are old enough or grew up basically before there was mobile phones, cell phones, Internet, computers.