It is everything wrong with government. That you are setting a standard of making 67,000 mistakes for every million times you try to do something, and you are going to reward and congratulate yourselves, this is disbelief, absolute, utter…

Lack of certainty is a wet blanket on investment. Lack of certainty is a wet blanket on innovation.

It is the role of Congress to push forth a bill. If we do so, we do it in a bipartisan way that should trump what the FCC is going to do.

It is my belief as a private-sector guy, uncertainty brings less investment than certainty.

Small businesses as all of us know are innovators, and particularly now in health care.

This is a political agenda. I think it is obvious to anyone when you look at the data.

Is it safe to say the only reason we have a wind and solar energy is tax subsidies? Absent those, you wouldn't have them?

Do you care that a majority of the Members of Congress, Republicans and Democrats alike, don't agree with you?

Why not withdraw the rule and start over?

We don't trust the EPA. We the people don't trust the EPA. Congress doesn't trust the EPA.

The problem is, the public doesn't trust the EPA. The farmers don't trust the EPA to not overreach.

We should make that clear. The problem is, the public doesn't trust the EPA.

So is there anything you could suggest that we could do on this Committee or in Congress to try to expedite this black hole that appears to be there?

That to me would be the overstep of Congress, thinking we always have a solution. We rarely do.

So my urging to you is to be collaborative, involve stakeholders, folks in the environmental community, the beekeeper community, the farm community, have them come together and work with researchers to try to find a suitable path forward.

Actions seem to indicate to many of us the Administration is picking winners and losers.

It is hypocritical and disingenuous to leave this committee with the impression SOFIA was a priority and it is clearly not.

Access to broadband is essential for farms and other rural small businesses to manage efficient and successful operations.

It is not a Democrat/Republican issue. When we talk about regulatory burdens, again, it is not a Republican/Democratic issue.

my farmers will tell you the EPA is one of the biggest impediments they have to expanding their farms

the last thing we should be doing is providing tax credits to an industry that is mature.

It was let's launch it on October 1 because we promised it would be October 1 whether it is ready, whether it is secure, doesn't matter.

This website was launched on October 1 for only one reason: political reasons. It was not ready.

A big government, 'one size fits all' set of regulations and laws that tell a business what benefits they have to offer... is, in fact, a drag on the economy.

The high cost to business of hiring a CPA or other tax advisor to give advice on the IRS aggregation rules... is money that is better spent on growth and the creation of jobs.