Rod Blum: “One of the reasons we are the greatest nation on the face of this earth is because of the rule of law.”

I am a career business guy, not a career politician. I look at the VA, you know, our veterans, our national treasures.

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

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.