"I appreciate the efforts of all of the agencies, but I am still concerned about some of the market forces."
"I think it is something we should do every year about this same time."
"Many competitive telephone providers use the physical infrastructure of incumbent carriers to provide telecom services to businesses through an arrangement called 'special access.'"
"But, again, if you have a CO-OP that's on the edge, that didn't solve that problem."
"opening statement"
"I am very disappointed that the Colorado Division of Insurance was compelled to shut down the CO-OP."
"From day one I have worked with the State of Colorado and the administration to help our CO-OPs succeed."
"But you know something, equally to blame is us, Congress."
"Congress cut the CO-OP loan funding program from $6 billion to $3.4 billion; is that right?"
"And if Congress had not made this program budget neutral, would it be fair to say that the payments from the risk-corridor program would have likely made a difference in keeping a lot of these CO-OPs ..."
"What's the public interest in having that Federal backstop for these small boats?"