Maybe Commissioner Pai first, and then the Chairman with the remaining time.

we can't let the necessary and the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Well, there are other issues the FCC has taken up this year that I wish there would have been more consensus on, so I don't want consensus to mean 100 percent, as you might imagine.

Thank the Chairman, and the Ranking Member, once again for suffering along with me as you wait for the last questioner.

I appreciate the chairman's clarifying the statements just made from the other side. I think we all have the same goal, but the lack of certainty, when you put in rule that for today we are not going to determine it hazardous but we leave…

I think energy security is different than energy independence.

I appreciate your support for the Keystone Pipeline.

Do you believe, representing just your country, that the world would be safer if the United States was a force or a player in the global marketplace, being the stable, reliable provider of crude oil?

I thank the chairman for yielding and for your leadership on this issue. Let me pick up where the gentleman left off relating to the comments made by the opposition to climate change's role in extreme weather conditions. Mr. Chairman, a…

I think very similar to my earlier comments, that we are planning on building a recapitalized network that can be upgraded and maintained into the future.

Big things are happening in the small cow town of Medora, North Dakota. The famed Medora Musical, also known as the Greatest Show in the West, is celebrating 50 years of entertaining and inspiring visitors while paying tribute to American…

I thank the chairman for yielding and for his good work on this important legislation. Mr. Speaker, during the last Congress, while I served on the Natural Resources Committee, we held an oversight hearing regarding the child protection…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding, and I thank my colleagues who have helped cosponsor this important amendment. Mr. Chairman, I think that the author of the amendment did a great job in discerning between 3 days and 30 minutes, as 30…

The most basic responsibility of a government of the people, by the people, and for the people is to protect the people. We protect our senior citizens' economic security with Social Security. We protect our country with our national…

Never did efficiency trump transparency because transparency leads to trust.

I want to do for the United States what we have been able to do for North Dakota, lest the United States do to North Dakota what they have done to the rest of the country.

I think it does, but it doesn't alleviate my concern because with your court example, wouldn't it be easier if we just had the states permitting as part of the enforcement mechanism rather than have a court...

I thought the GAO report was fantastic frankly.

I think that it is incumbent upon us now, as policymakers and eventually appropriators, to look for opportunities to prioritize some of the programs.

I raise it because I wonder how many more times we could duplicate this throughout the system.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman from Illinois and ranking member from New York, for acknowledging rural America.

Well, you are a very articulate spokesman and advocate on behalf of local broadcasting, and I appreciate your taking the time and your expertise. By the way, you did pose it in the form of a question. I suppose some people can look at…

I appreciate so much this opportunity that we have this evening to inform and to educate my colleagues in the House, fellow Members of Congress, and even the American people through C-SPAN, about the importance of local radio and…

Well, it is very important because as I said, Mr. Speaker, at the beginning, over 600 broadcasters are in town today calling on the Members of Congress, calling on us, reminding us of the important role that they play in public safety, in…

You raise very important points. Again, I appreciate the reminder that, while we are, today, educating, informing, and celebrating local broadcasting, it is at risk; that we can take our eye off the ball, that we can assume or presume some…