"This is a disturbing proposal, I would tell you from my perspective."
"I hope to start with the basics and take a close look at the FCC's budget request for Fiscal Year 2016."
"This Order may be the salvation of edge providers that fear speculative ISP practices or it may be the beginning of regulation of all platform providers wherever they sit on the Internet."
"Our calls for transparency have been echoed by others to no avail."
"Uncertainty is what we hoped to stave off by introducing legislation that would clearly demarcate the FCC's authority over the Internet."
"Most of you know that I did not see the need for net neutrality rules, and some of my colleagues had to be dragged 'kicking and screaming' toward our draft bill."
"I hope that all of us here in the room will continue to engage in a productive dialogue and use the tools at our, and only our, disposal to end the net neutrality debate once and for all."
"I think what we will see--and I didn't mean to just point out Public Knowledge alone because there are other groups that do that..."
"There are actually a thousand, exactly a thousand provisions within the CFRs."
"I can think of no issue within our jurisdiction that is more important to consider at this time than the future of the Internet and our responsibility as legislators to set Internet policy for the cou..."
"That is why we put forward draft legislation to provide consumers the protections they deserve while not choking off investment and innovation."
"We have a very important choice to make between letting three very smart and capable, but unelected people at the FCC, a majority of the commission, use a statute written for another era to cobble tog..."