"Something isn't happening that should be happening. This weekend I met with 10 businesspeople from my district--all of them solid businesspeople, all of them good numbers, good business acumen."
"I would encourage you to take a look as you look at TARP."
"TicketMaster should immediately sell TicketsNow and end this obvious conflict of interest."
"The heart of this issue is the average American out there, the person who works longer and longer hours for less and less, the person who scrimps and saves for months to maybe buy a couple of tickets ..."
"This isn't just a little bad PR, this is quite simply a bad deal for the American people."
"I have grave concerns that this merger will have far reaching negative consequences for artists, fans, promoters, and the music industry as a whole."
"We want people to make profits. That is what America is all about."
"When this deal is approved... do we really believe that this new corporate Goliath will do what is in the best interest of consumers?"
"Real music and sports fans deserve the right to see their favorite bands and their teams without a greedy middleman."
"To even imply that the Senate committee and the House committee are irrelevant to the task of examining this merger, first of all, is wrong and, second of all, we should all think about what our respo..."
"I was moved to act on this issue by the appeal of over 1,000 average Americans who felt they got a rotten deal and just wanted to know the truth, which is why I wrote to the Federal Trade Commission a..."