Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And my thanks to all of my Republican colleagues for your patience...

What happened to LightSquared, a promising company with plans to inject new competition into the wireless broadband market, is disappointing.

Harmful interference between adjacent spectrum bands is becoming the new spectrum crisis.

I would just like to add to the comments that I made earlier that this is really highly unusual that a bill would enjoy such high co-sponsorship. So, to the advocates that may be tuned in tonight, I, again, want to pay homage to them for…

We wish him all of our best and that he will be missed here.

You all represent that, and we are grateful to you.

To advance a 21st century spectrum policy, I think we have to think outside of the box.

I'm very pleased to join with all of my colleagues. This is an unusual happening on the floor, and I hope there are lots of people tuned in from C-SPAN listening and watching, because it is one of the few times that we've come together in…

How much time do I have? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from California has 8 minutes remaining.

I would now like to yield 3 minutes to my distinguished colleague from California, Representative Zoe Lofgren, who is respected in the House for her knowledge, not only of technology, but of all the wraparound issues that are a part of it.

I would now like to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), who has been a recognized intellectual leader on telecommunications and the Internet for a long time in the Congress.

At this time I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Doyle), a highly regarded member of our committee.