Ed Markey

Well, again, I would leave it up to the same lawyers at the FCC that were just upheld at the Circuit Court to determine what is, in fact, constitutional or not, and so far their record has been very good in terms of drawing those lines…

There's kind of an argument here, well, this is kind of like a radical departure from what's been going on for the last 20 years, and what you're saying is it's not at all.

What they're talking about is giving consumers more power to choose if their sensitive information can be used or shared by the ISPs.

If that information is not considered to be sensitive, then all of us have every bit of information being gathered about us.

Where you go online all day long is as sensitive as your health information.

The telephone company can't sell that information, where you went, who you are.

And I find that in general as kind of a rule, there are some people, they have some disease, you know, they're telling everyone about it.

It's reasonable. It gives the consumer some rights, some sense of expectations about what they can expect.

It's a modest set of requirements.

We have seen a revolution in telecommunications across the world, including in much of what we call the 'developing world.'

We are pushing rope when we send money to countries that are not going through the reforms that need to occur.

I think it is an outdated model.

I just think that we should work, you know, together to try to accomplish those goals.

I just think that the United States has to help these countries lift their gaze to the constellation of possibilities for their own people through the dissemination of technology.

I take a somewhat different approach to my friend, and agree with you, Senator. I think broadband access has become the fundamental avenue for free expression in the world, and is the link to the world economy.

The Internet contributed an estimated $4.2 trillion in annual growth to the economies of the G20 countries.

We thank the panel for joining us here today.

These are crimes, in many instances, that the EPA is investigating, and those who have committed these crimes, or alleged to have committed these crimes, could have guns themselves.

We know that there is no law that if you are on a no-fly terrorist list that you can't buy a gun in the Unites States.

So what additional actions are you taking at the EPA in order to oversee this Flint mess at large across the whole Country, community after community, and are reporting that they have the same problem?

Over the last 6 years your office has seen a 9 percent decrease in funding and a 17 percent reduction in your work force.

So to send an EPA law enforcement officer into a situation without a gun, while there could be a gun on the other side of the door, I think would basically differentiate an EPA enforcement officer from every other enforcement officer at…

I just want to say, Mr. Chairman, through you to Chairman Inhofe, that I actually called Ann Anderson last week to tell her that we had overhauled TSCA and that this chemical which was the principal culprit in giving her son leukemia, and…

Might the cuts in your budget and work force be partially responsible for the limited enforcement actions?

You and I, last week, were at the White House sitting there while President Obama signed a bill which had equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans working together, the toxic chemical update of a law that is a 1975 law.