Jeanne Shaheen

39 percent said it's the only option available to them.

But if they can do it through their tele-health, they're able to make it available to all of the veterans who come in.

I am, like all of you, very concerned about what the implications may be.

The frustration for me is the responses to all of the points that all of you have made this morning have really been nonexistent.

I think platforms like Ebay and Etsy have really made a difference and provided opportunities.

Imagine if it happened how much time it would take businesses to focus on this, to deal with it...

I'm always impressed with the fact that small businesses have 16 times more patents per employee than large businesses.

Some of us remember that.

For, again, so much of the State, because we're rural, it's the one way we have access to different specialties.

Can you elaborate on the impact on startups with a repeal of net neutrality, what that would mean for things like crowd funding and access to other investors who might be interested in a startup?

New Hampshire small businesses and micro businesses rely on the equalizing force of the internet.

So it's possible in the near future that the Senate will consider a bipartisan Congressional Review Act resolution to rescind the FCC's order ending net neutrality.

We had a small roundtable with a number of businesses at Alpha Loft earlier this year, and we had this whole conversation about the workaround...

Unfortunately, the protections that have ensured net neutrality are now at risk because of decisions by the Federal Communications Commission last year that voted along party lines to repeal net neutrality rules.

It's a double whammy.

Small business owners have repeatedly expressed their concerns about what the impact of these changes would mean on their access to the internet.

Absolutely, and I want to get back to the tele-medicine piece because it is so important in New Hampshire.

Uncertainty, whether it's around the internet or budgets or whatever it is, is a real problem for business in general.

I urge you to consider these impacts on the repeal of net neutrality rules and focus on advancing policies that foster fair competition.

Net neutrality and the importance of maintaining an open internet is very important as we think about innovation and creativity that's going on with our small businesses.

At this time I would like to officially open the Small Business Committee's field hearing in Durham to explore the impact of net neutrality on New Hampshire's small businesses.

I want to go back to the Census questions.

I certainly hope you will do that.

One of the things that we heard very strongly from the families of those Americans murdered by those terrorists--executed, really--is that they wanted to see that the people who killed them were brought to justice.

For States like New Hampshire, where we have no sanctuary cities, it puts us at a special disadvantage.