Rod Blum: “Can you imagine if we incentivized your agencies with bonuses in your paychecks, if you reduced the regulatory burden on…”

I would suggest that raising wages is one of the most important things that we can do to really fuel consumer demand.

It seems to them that we privatized profits and socialized losses, and I am with them.

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.

I would like to make the gentleman from Virginia aware that I have no further speakers and I am prepared to close. I enjoy my colleague from Virginia's rather dry sense of wit and humor. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.