John Dingell

Here we have people who are deserving of it by their service, who are skilled and have experience that is enormously valuable.

I also want to make it very clear that when I came out of the Army back in 1946, I would observe that I was given by the school that I returned to, Georgetown, full credit for a lot of the things that I had learned and done in the military.

I think we could address all these questions.

If you can't, you are wasting a lot of talent, skills, and money.

Now, this is the question. What steps will NCTA's member companies take to ensure that their subscribers can still access local broadcast signals affected by the Viewability Order's sunset?

We can all agree that consumers want innovative, informative and entertaining new content.

It belongs to the public and those most capable of serving the public interest should be entrusted with that license.

I have got an election coming up like all of my colleagues here on the committee, and like every politician everywhere, and we all use political ads on local stations to reach our constituents, those who vote in the districts.

Both parties, Democrats and Republicans, acknowledge the importance of working steadfastly to promote the training of our youth in these fields.

My fear for today's debate is that it is being framed in a way where we are presented with a false choice between implementing environmental standards to protect our citizens or allow 'job-killing' EPA regulations to move forward.

Today, we will hear more tall tales that attempt to debunk these facts and lead us to believe that any policy that regulates greenhouse gases will automatically lead to increased job losses.

Without good oversight, serious issues won't be identified and fixed, and the results could be disastrous.

Because of the deplorable nature of Medicare fraud and abuse, this committee and I worked hard to make sure that the Affordable Care Act gave the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services new tools to fight the swindlers who perpetrate…

The Affordable Care Act provided nearly $500 million in increased funding to help fund efforts like those to fight fraud.

Would you submit to us, if you please, sir, whether additional authority is needed and how your authorities are working and whether new authorities are needed and what they might be for the record?

Is it fair to say that the Affordable Care Act significantly increases the ability to suspend payments until an investigation is complete so that Medicare does not make overpayments or payments for false services? Yes or no.

Now, again, to both of our witnesses, I understand that some of the countries like Russia and China believe that 'policy authority for Internet-related public issues is the sovereign rights of States and not multi-stakeholders.' Is that…

Now, in your collective opinion is it wise to maintain international multi-stakeholder regulatory process that more closely resembles the Administrative Procedure Act model that we use in the United States as opposed to what China and…

I know you are both aware that the President has signed legislation that permits the FCC to conduct an incentive auction in which television broadcasters can elect to return their licenses in return for a portion of the auction revenues.

I am a little less comfortable about some of the other folks down at the Commission.

I don't like to do that but we have a lot of ground to cover.

I am comfortable that you would engage in full transparency.

Is there any relief that can be given to a utility under these circumstances?

Would you submit that for the record, please?

Is there in any statute or any regulation or in any cooperative management between the sundry departments down there a provision which requires consultation?