Political Quotes

“I thank the Chairman. I appreciate the debate we've had today. I think it's been helpful. It hasn't always been enlightening, but it's been helpful. Again, I would point out that the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners praises what we're doing in this bill and the points of requiring actual language to be available for people to see. All we're doing here is telling the FCC to operate like these other Agencies have been asked to operate by the President's jobs council and by the President's Executive order, but do so in a public and transparent way so that those who have business before the Commission know what the Commission is going to vote on before it votes or rewrites it and then puts it out later. Go out and survey the marketplace, decide if there's a harm, do a notice of inquiry, and get input like we do in hearings here, Mr. Chairman, and then propose rules and put those texts out there of those rules and let the public see. The great defenders of the bureaucracy, my friends, some of them on the other side of the aisle, say, Oh, you can't change anything in Washington. That's what we've heard for 40 years. Some of us came here to change Washington for the better. We did it when we changed the rules of the House at the beginning of this session to make our procedures more open and transparent.…”