Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman very much, and I thank the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Boucher) for his leadership on this critical issue, along with the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Stearns) in partnership with Mr. Waxman and with Mr. Barton. Mr. Boucher and I have been working on these issues for many, many, many years, and this bill that has been produced by his subcommittee is something that, in my opinion, is going to go a long way towards helping our country to create a new boom economically in this wireless sector. We saw a great boom in the 1990s when we moved over 200 megahertz of spectrum, creating the third, fourth, fifth and sixth cell phone license, combined with the Telecom Act of 1996. We saw, actually, a transformation in the way in which we communicate in our country. Who would think that we could move from black rotary dial phones to BlackBerrys in just 10 years, almost on a ubiquitous basis. {time} 1230 Who would think that Mr. Stearns could be checking his BlackBerry even as I'm speaking out here on the floor? That's something we're very proud of. We're very proud of that revolution in the 1990s. And I think we have the potential here in this legislation to accomplish the very same kind of addition to the spectrum capacity. And Ms. Blackburn is showing not only can we use these devices now for voice but also for video and for data.…”