"I urge the administration to continue the United States' commitment to the Internet's collaborative governance structure and to reject international efforts to bring the Internet under government cont..."
"If this power grab is successful, I am concerned that the next Arab Spring will instead become a Russia Winter where free speech is chilled, not encouraged, and the Internet becomes a wasteland of unf..."
"Now is the time to execute a serious game plan that deals with those who would put international politics ahead of an open and prosperous Internet."
"Thank you not only for your leadership on this issue but your testimony today and your encouragement on our bipartisan resolution."
"Today marks the third oversight hearing of our subcommittee to examine whether taxpayers are getting their money's worth from the broadband loan and grant programs."
"The Recovery Act allocated $7.2 billion to these programs, dwarfing previous broadband loan and grant programs in size."
"We were told such haste was necessary to get the economy going and the money would go to 'shovel-ready projects.'"
"What have we gotten in return for that $2.5 billion? Well the National Broadband Map is one thing; I think that was about $300 million for the map."
"I think it is the correct action to protect taxpayer dollars and ensure that these projects are deployed consistent with the recently enacted legislation."
"I think we should applaud their action in that regard."
"At some point it would be interesting to know, of those projects that are taking so long, how many of those are in these very rural districts."
"I am one of the members that pushed our leadership very, very hard to include a significant sum of money to make sure that we really reach people and build broadband out to them because the private se..."