"It is time for a fresh approach from we who are elected to write the law and to set the Nation's communications policy."
"My priority is to protect consumers and the Internet we all rely upon."
"We will not let the old Washington gridlock stand in the way of us doing our job, for the voters demand it and they deserve it."
"I would hope to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle with aspiration that whatever legislation is hammered out, that it will be clearly surely nothing but bipartisan."
"What is before us today, though, is the President is now turning the FCC into his open puppeteer here."
"There is no overwhelming evidence of clear market failure that would drive to deep regulatory control from Washington top down."
"I don't believe our draft does that."
"Representative Greg Walden criticized the FCC for having spent $352 million on IT over the last 5 years."
"Unfortunately, like so many really, really good pieces of bipartisan legislation, H.R. 3675 remains stuck and stalled in the Senate."
"Unfortunately, like so many pieces of bipartisan legislation, H.R. 3675 remains stuck in the Senate, without so much as a hearing to consider this needed legislation."
"The American people deserve no less."
"I am sitting here trying to figure out how an agency that can't quite get a Web site to work and has all these issues is going to effectively manage the entire Internet."