Dianne Feinstein actually said...

"Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and I very much agree with your comments, and I do agree that the time is now and that we need to know what the concerns are."

"This lack of a public performance right for sound recordings is a huge international embarrassment."

"Thus, isn't it misleading to call this a new tax?"

"I am concerned that we are the only nation in the industrialized world that does not provide these performance rights."