"Thank you very much."
"I want to express my appreciation to Senator Schatz for beginning the hearing in my absence."
"You have all been excellent witnesses. This has been a most informative 1 hour and 50 minutes."
"Giving America better yields----"
"And that is the principal thing, that is the principal change that you are advocating today. Would that be fair to say?"
"Well, thank you for that. So roughly a sixth of all the unserved households?"
"There are about 500,000 households that are not covered under the current Connect America Fund that were basically left behind in the first two rounds of the Connect America Fund."
"We ought to be looking at new ways."
"But I digress."
"Now, Mr. Seward, you were kind enough to come by my office yesterday afternoon, which is a good thing because your testimony is the only testimony I missed coming in late because of the Prayer Breakfa..."
"That includes the mountainous West Virginia that you can hardly hear 50 feet, according to Senator Manchin?"