Ed Markey

The urgency to convey the need for unity to Libyan leaders cannot be overstated.

My hope would be that the Commission would look at it, ensuring that the guiding principles are competition, competition, competition.

I believe an ISP has a duty to protect the privacy of consumers who use the company's wired and wireless infrastructure to connect to the world.

I want to make clear the FCC has done precisely what Congress intended the Commission to do, classify broadband Internet access service according to its best understanding of the technology of that day and how consumers use that technology.

When 68 percent of it, following your decision, goes toward that sector, then we've got what young people in colleges and graduate schools all across America want to do.

It was a major victory for consumers, for our economy, and for democracy, because that day was a day when the FCC stood up for the best ideas, not merely the best funded ideas, and we thank you for being on the right side of history.

On February 26 of last year, we opened the next chapter in the history of American innovation, and that's because on February 26, what will always be known as Internet Freedom day, the FCC stood up for Net Neutrality and reclassified…

There's a 99 percent control by these companies, and to pretend otherwise is just to ignore the real life experience of every single American.

We're still in the set-top box era. Comcast, just one company, a great company, by the way--but Comcast is installing 40,000 set-top boxes a day in America--a day.

We wanted to just break down this monopoly that existed.

It's just as relevant today as it was a quarter of a century ago.

I went with the President to Africa last July, and in Ethiopia, we had a signing of an agreement.

The article talked about how it was going to intensify regional conflicts as they fought over limited resources.

Yes, the problems in Sub-Saharan Africa were actually the first problems, first areas kind of identified as the problem area for climate change.

I would like to go to Ethiopia, if I could, talk about El Nino, talk about this historic impact it is having in Ethiopia.

This is clearly an exacerbated form of the climate change impacts that we are seeing.

I would recommend that to you. These are very toxic chemicals that are mixed in with the gasoline.

With lower oil prices globally and in the marketplace here in the United States, American consumers are now moving toward larger vehicles, and they are actually driving more as well.

There is no question that climate change is real, it is happening.

I guess what I am asking you is that is going to drive the price of gasoline up again, the larger vehicles being purchased, the additional gasoline needed for those large vehicles, and the fact that people are driving more.

We have to find alternative ways of providing for the transportation system in our Country.

So you don't make your own independent evaluation, it is an EIA determination as to whether or not the price of gasoline is likely to go up because of this increase in consumption?

We cannot very well run around the world and say, 'You need to stop doing this,' when we are not doing it ourselves.

We need to act with a desperate sense of urgency so that, when our grandchildren talk about slavery, they are going to talk about it as an historic relic.

But, you should know that we are listening to you on this committee, that it is worth it for you to step out.