Byron Dorgan: “I am not prepared to have someone say, ``I reject the standard that Congress determined to be the standard when it…”

“I am not prepared to have someone say, ``I reject the standard that Congress determined to be the standard when it passed the Telecommunications Act, and I create my own standard,'' and none of us know what that means here--I am not prepared to say, ``Yes, let me sign up for that. Let me be a partner in that process.'' I am not willing to do it. It may be, at the end stage of this process, maybe it is proven to us that Mr. Klein was right. I hope so. I hope that is the case. But if he is not right, if we are right, what is going to happen is everybody in this country who uses a telephone, everybody in this country who is a consumer of telecommunications services, is going to end up paying higher prices. That's the test.”