Rick Allen: “I thank the senior Senator, Mr. Warner, for allowing me to make a few remarks about technology. It is a great honor to…”

“I thank the senior Senator, Mr. Warner, for allowing me to make a few remarks about technology. It is a great honor to be chairman of the Senate Republican high-tech task force, where we are looking at a variety of issues to allow the technology community to continue to improve our lives. Senator Warner has been a tremendous leader in this regard, especially as far as security is concerned. We all on the task force very much look forward to his further contributions. The people in this country are benefiting a great deal from the technology in communications, and in commerce there is tremendous potential, as well as in education, in biotechnology, in transportation, and elsewhere. Just for people to understand our philosophy, we trust free people and free enterprise. People should not be limited or hampered in their creativity, and it should be the marketplace, free people making free choices as to whether or not someone's technological invention or innovations are worthy of their purchases. So we think those are the principles that should be guiding us in determining the success determined by the people in the marketplace. Mr. President, in recognizing how much technological opportunity we have, we need to make sure that our rural communities have access to high-speed Internet capabilities.”