Ed Markey actually said...

"I ask unanimous consent, Mr. Chairman, to add two letters to the record..."

"We should try to figure out how to make the laws tougher so that these offshore overseas calls are harder to make."

"Be careful of the difference between that defensive side, which, again, we would support bolstering--don't make exceptions because you've suddenly picked winners and losers."

"I authored this law in 1991--I am the author of it--it was because there was an epidemic of calls that were going into people's homes."