Brian Bilbray: “Mr. Ranking Member, let me say this quite clearly as somebody who was a regulator more than I was a congressman, how…”

I personally spent a lot of time in Latin America working on certain problems they have down there.

So in other words, you were fighting the last war; didn't look at the fact that there was a new technology coming on that was going to be available.

I think that the fact is people are starting to depend on this for more and more, and they want it consolidated.

Let me assure you as a regulator, the Manhattan Project would not be legal under today's laws.