By almost every measure, the internet ecosystem has thrived for decades.

I look forward to working with you, and we all know that the bipartisanship that this committee has exhibited through the years is exemplary.

It is time for Congress to debug this debate once and for all and reach a bipartisan solution that protects the open internet without damaging internet growth.

I believe there is plenty of room for consensus here and there is also great need for consensus.

What it does not include is the drastic outlier measure of reclassifying broadband into Title II.

Now, I know my colleagues on the other side of the aisle like to throw big rocks at anybody that is big corporation.

As we all know, this is the greatest committee in Congress, and this is a great subcommittee to be on.

Our constituents want us to focus on getting broadband out to close the digital divide.

The uncertainty generated by these years of net neutrality wars is very unhelpful to that goal.

It throws away 20 years of bipartisan consensus that built the modern internet and it replaces it with an authority that dates back to the early 1900s used to govern monopoly telephone companies.

Is that truly the model we hope to emulate for the internet?

I look forward to hearing from all the witnesses, today, and as we move forward on a long-awaited legislative compromise.