Chris Van Hollen

The law would have allowed you to do that, right?

People, consumers who have information incorrectly included on one of your reports, they often have to pay a lot of money to other firms to get it corrected.

Well, if it is true, it violates--it is contradictory--I do not know if you were sworn in today or not, but it violates your earlier testimony.

They recommended that we get rid of forced arbitration.

If that is true, it directly contradicts your testimony to this Committee, doesn't it?

I find it amazing that you would say your customers come first, and then you deny them the choice of how they seek their compensation, how they seek justice.

If your customer knows best, why do you deny them the ability to go to court?

If a customer makes--a customer brings the case, right?

I would encourage you to do that because one of my constituents came out to go to work one morning.

I hope, Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member, we can move in that direction.

But the point is if we are serious about getting China to work with us and cooperate, we have got to increase the leverage.

As Secretary Thornton indicated, they have been, and I am quoting here, 'the leading enabler of North Korea.'

I think it was premature of President Trump to sort of heap some congratulations on President Xi.

I mean, there is nothing that would have stopped you from doing that.

If he is not fully aware and engaged with what is happening at the FCC, the grants that are provided by the Department of Agriculture... could have an even bigger impact on the deployment of broadband in rural areas.

The Commission should continue to assess fixed and mobile broadband separately in determining whether advanced communications capabilities are being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion.

Broadband deployment was essential to economic development in rural areas

I understand. It seems to me there should be a presumption that once a company has decided there has been a material change and before they disclose that to the public, there should be just a rule that executives do not trade that stock.

But does the SEC bring these kind of materiality cases for failure or violation of 8-K disclosure?

I take it from your testimony, Mr. Lewis, that you think we should expand the jurisdiction, the authorities here to include greenfields. Is that right?

I do think it is important that we continue to push China really hard on that front.

I mean, is a health condition relevant to whether you get a loan or something?

The fiduciary rule is good for consumers. It is good for markets. It is good for competition. It is good for startups.

I think that is an excellent proposal, and it really would rebalance things...

Yes, indeed. I think that that is exactly right. We have 28,000 American soldiers in South Korea and about 50,000 in Japan. ____________________