Rod Blum: “Is there accountability? I just find it incredible. Is there accountability there? Why aren't heads rolling? Why aren't…”

To me, it is almost like legalized extortion, in that you can get a letter--and we have, our company has--get a letter that says, you know: You are violating this innocuous patent we have never heard of because you--I will use an extreme…

It is imperative--imperative--that we identify and help mitigate the difficulties identified by small, rural carriers in deploying broadband so we can begin to close the urban and rural digital divide.

Get out of my back pocket with excessive taxes so I am not spending time and money on that.

I urge adoption of the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time