Greg Walden: “My constituents from Bend to John Day and many others in rural parts of our country want access to the Internet.”

It does not give me pleasure to be here today to say what I am about to say. I am really frustrated. The Energy and Commerce Committee, which I am the ranking member and former chairman of, we worked most of this year on legislation to ban…

I, too, would urge this bill's passage, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pallone) that the House suspend the rules and pass the…

I want to thank my colleagues, especially my friend from New Mexico for his leadership on this legislation. I would just say that they have all worked very hard on this. It is extraordinarily important to pass this. Madam Speaker, I yield…

I have no other speakers on this legislation, so I urge its passage, and I yield back the balance of my time.