Ed Markey

So with regard to Power Africa, for example, how can we use that to leverage U.S. investment in the energy sector as a way of extracting anticorruption protections built around those programs?

Nigeria is the largest economy on the African continent, and they have a very aggressive--frankly, the worst we've seen--local content policy impacting ICT.

I know Senator Coons has given great leadership on that issue, and I am looking forward to working with him and Senator Flake and other members of the committee.

Mr. Bollyky, your report is quite startling, that heart disease and cancer is now the global health crisis in Africa, surpassing HIV, malaria, maternal disorders combined.

We need to focus on the improving health sector capacity across the continent so that the incredible gains of PEPFAR and other initiatives can continue.

It's the heart of our economy. It's where young people want to go, of all races.

That's what this is all about.

I think it's an historically correct decision but I don't think there should be a question about whether or not you use the process that allowed all voices to be heard.

What we're doing here is we are not letting people get away with saying, 'No.'

The FCC made the right decision. You're the agency of expertise.

Twenty-five years is a long time.

I think it would be ill-advised for the Congress to move in and try to be the agency of expertise.

It's all about competition. It's all about innovation.

We have to make sure that we speed up the pace at which young kids get the skillset they need for the new jobs in our country.

What we've done is we've created, you have created a more predictable investment environment

I thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I want to congratulate you on your Title II decision.

Paying for record high budgets by siphoning money from USF is a dangerous precedent.

I know that contentious matters like Title II divide the membership of this committee, but FCC reauthorization is an area where I believe Republicans and Democrats can and should work together.

Letter dated March 18, 2015 from 140 advocacy groups and companies supporting the Title II decision of the Federal Communications Commission.

1993, Senator Markey, then-Congressman Markey, created Section 332 of the Communications Act in the House.

The Udall-Vitter bill makes it more difficult for EPA to regulate a chemical in a product like furniture or clothing, even after EPA has found that the chemical is unsafe.

Reform is needed. But that reform must be built on a platform of meaningful protections for the public.

It essentially puts the States out of business of protecting their people from poison.

The laboratories of democracy, as Justice Brandeis called the States, have been out in front of Congress.