we are troubled by the blackout policies of professional sports leagues and broadcast and cable networks that all too often leave sports fans in the dark

I think everybody involved, anybody with the slightest exposure to this system, would agree that the current system is not ideal.

I think we heard Senator Blumenthal ask a good question about, you know, whether perhaps--or at least raise a concern whether the emphasis and the focus has shifted.

I think the system can benefit from the kind of review that Chairman Begich is providing here.

Very few judges would permit a proceeding before them in which only one side is presented because they know that the core principle of our judicial system is that it is adversarial.

But you have given me a number for the communications but not a number for the dollars.

I believe is a key example of how public-private partnerships can help our manufacturers invest and grow.

Thank you. Let me just move on.

I do not understand what resource intensive... it looks like it is going to cost a lot.

Thank you very much, Madam Secretary.

Great. I would welcome an opportunity to work with you on it.

I do think that people should be concerned about the greater intrusiveness.

I wonder if you could comment in particular on the testimony, very compelling testimony, from Mr. Salgado about the need for transparency.

I have proposed that there be a constitutional advocate to, in effect, provide some adversarial process within the FISA Court.

I have proposed as a method of creating funds for job training and capital investment that there be a manufacturers' reinvestment account.

I thank my colleague from the State of Washington for her eloquence and leadership on this issue, as I do my colleague from California. She has been steadfast and strong in support of a woman's right to make choices about reproductive…

I thank my colleague, an esteemed lawyer and prosecutor herself, for her service on the Judiciary Committee and dedication to the quality of our courts and for her bringing us together this afternoon to focus on a topic I think perhaps is…

Frankly, the Health Care Affordability Act has done more to extend parity than we ever were able to do in our parity bill.

Regulatory agencies have authority to act through official rulemaking and the notice and comment process created in 1946.

I agree with what Senator Kaine has just said the responsibility being on the part of Congress.

And the absence of these regulations has real-world consequences in imperiling lives and perhaps causing crashes and imperiling people.

I would argue that there is standing under a correct and I think legal interpretation of the standing doctrines.

I support that design, the $443 million for the design program.

I would think that this would spark a lot of interest in Washington, particularly amongst the Chamber of Commerce.

I want to again thank both of you for being here today. Congressman Kennedy, I assure you that these regulations will not be the last word.