"I appreciate the Chair's patience. Sometimes some of us support a unicameral Congress instead of having two bodies."
"I want to commend you for this hearing. I think this has been an important hearing."
"If there is an attempt made to update the Communications Act, I will offer my support."
"Only clear direction from Congress will strengthen consumer protections, promote competition and give industry the regulatory certainty it needs to innovate in the future."
"I hope that the undertaking will be bipartisan in order so that any final product that we complete here moves through the Senate and to the President's desk for signature."
"the public interest is still and always going to remain the central concern that we have with regard to the Communications Act."
"I wish you Godspeed in this endeavor. And I offer you my support."
"SGR reform is urgently necessary because without it, the whole problems of Medicare and our taking care of health care in this country in making the Affordable Care Act is going to suffer terribly as ..."
"It is really a shame that we weren't able to put this in because of budget matters without having to address the question of how we are going to pay for it because it solves a problem that was created..."
"I want to commend the members of the committee, the leadership of the committee and the other committees in the House and Senate for the leadership which they gave in this matter and for the vision an..."
"It would be a terrible calamity if we don't carry this thing across the finish line."
"I want to make it very clear that Medicare beneficiaries should not have their benefits reduced or cost increased to pay for the reform of SGR."