Political Quotes

“Before I yield to the vice chairman of the subcommittee, I just want to make a couple of corrections here to at least explain things. The Federal Communications Commission would still have the public interest standard that it has today to deny a transfer if it's not in the public interest. We don't take that away. We don't take that away. And on interoperability, the ranking member talked about this interoperability standard the Commission is now taking up. Ironically, that actually was first raised as part of a request by some to include in the AT&T-Qualcomm merger. Instead, the Commission actually did the right thing. It, in effect, is doing a notice of inquiry. It says, Before we do draft rules, let's go out and survey the marketplace and find out what the issues are. Then the next logical step is to come back with a notice of proposed rulemaking, i.e., the draft rules. This is what we are suggesting occur as regular practice as a result of this legislation. Now I would yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Terry), the distinguished vice chair of the subcommittee.”