I take this opportunity to thank you all for voting for the Judicial Redress Act and hope that the Senate follows your leadership on that.

I don't think we cured everything, must frankly. We really never do because you have to develop consensus, and these are tough issues.

I apologize to the witnesses that I had to step out.

Last week, there were several elected officials in one of my local communities that wrote to me about the need to ensure that federal policies don't undermine their local permitting decisions for wireless facilities.

With competition comes lower prices, faster speeds, and better customer service.

Do you all support the 'Dig Once' policy?

That is encouraging.

Competition, competition, competition. We have heard Chairman Wheeler, members of the committee repeat these words over and over and over again.

It is commonly called 'Dig Once.' And it is so commonsense that I have even wondered why we didn't come up with this a decade ago.

That is why I introduced legislation with Senator Leahy to ban paid prioritization or so-called Internet fast lanes.

the sky is not falling. And we have broadband providers' own data to prove it.

There's been much said about certainty, uncertainty today, and where we would find certainty would be in legislation; we have uncertainty because of what the FCC did about net neutrality.