Mark Begich actually said...

"Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for holding this hearing and an opportunity to kind of explore the issues of remote areas."

"And do you feel the other countries are participating in a way that is going to produce an end product?"

"I think public funding, private-public partnerships, equity, these are all really--I mean, they are important long-range."

"we do need to make it sustainable through a number of different operators"