Political Quotes

“I thank Chairman Walden, and I want to thank my colleague, Congressman Kinzinger, for his leadership on bringing this bill to the floor. Mr. Chair, what we are trying to do here is to continue to allow the great innovation that we have seen from the technology industry. It has happened not because government has sat there and regulated every aspect of what they do. It is because government, frankly, hasn't figured out how to regulate them because the industry moves so fast. I think that has been a good thing. It has shown that if you allow an industry to go out there and invest private money in creating great new technologies, great new products, and you look at the development and deployment of broadband, it is literally changing people's lives for the good. It has allowed America to be such a great technological leader. But then when you see the threat of the FCC setting rates, regulating broadband, it will send a chilling effect that will not only kill that investment and slow down the ability and the growth that we have seen that has been so revolutionary in this country, but it will kill jobs in this country. We need to stop the threat of the FCC being able to set rates in a way that can slow down that growth. We have seen such tremendous growth in the technology industry by the government not being in this arena. What Congressman Kinzinger is doing with this bill protects taxpayers and protects the growth and innovation that we need in this country.…”