Political Quotes

“First, I want to correct the correction of the gentleman from Virginia. He said we dealt with this in the telecommunications bill. No. What we did in the telecommunications bill was to say that we will deal with this later. Now that it is later, we are saying we dealt with it in the telecommunications bill. I read from the letter of January 31, 1996 to Reed Hundt, signed by the gentleman from Virginia, chairman of the committee in the Senate, the Senate majority leader now, and the Speaker. 'We share Senator Dole's determination to protect American taxpayers.' They did in January. Kind of faded. 'We wish to inform the Commission that it is our intention to conduct open hearings and move legislation to overhaul our Nation's policies governing the electromagnetic spectrum. We request the Commission not issue any initial licenses or construction permits until legislation is completed.' There is no legislation. So, in fact, what they said when this came up in the telecommunications bill is we will do it later and now they say we did it in telecommunications bill.”