Tom Wheeler: “I think it's for very basic reasons. I--as I mentioned in my testimony, when 80 percent of the E-Rate schools say…”

Congresswoman, the reality is that for decades, we have been regulating the use of network information in the telephone network saying a phone company cannot make it available to a third party without the consumers' permission.

It is hard to understate the seriousness of something like this for two reasons. One, as has been pointed out, this is the people's money.

this is the joy of this job. I, Senator Johanns, thank you for your thought that they might name the building after me. This is not a goal, okay?

Openness is at the core of what built the Internet.