Thank you, Senator Shaheen. Thanks for chairing this hearing and for letting me serve on this subcommittee with you.

If I'm right, then wouldn't it make perfect sense to move forward with this legislation?

I think it's appropriate for us to get input from the host state's legislature before we declare new wilderness.

I'm uncomfortable with Congress declaring new wilderness as long as that shroud of uncertainty remains.

Pakistan's influence on the fight against terrorism, its role in the region generally, its nuclear weapons capabilities, and various other factors make it an important, and a volatile, factor in U.S. national security.

the hearings are a dog-and-pony show

the hearings are a dog-and-pony show, and he brought a picture to prove it.

Competition must be understood as maximization of consumer welfare.

I favor market approaches rather than Government funding and intervention to develop a nationwide mobile broadband network.

The combination of AT&T and T-Mobile would create the largest wireless carrier in the Nation.

I share some of the concerns expressed by my colleague the Chairman, Senator Kohl.

Potentially leading to less competition. Is that your position?

Our analysis of the proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile should be guided by what will be best for consumers.

I think he ought to be tried at Guantanamo.

I believe really that he ought to be transferred to Guantanamo and prosecuted in a military commission.

I understand that bilateral aid to sub-Saharan Africa has had quite a significant bump over the last decade.

Ultimately, we believe that in order for a country to become prosperous, it requires good governance.

if the United States cuts back on some of our development efforts and our aid in Africa, we will leave a vacuum of the particularly dangerous sort that other nations or other entities might fill