"the specter of costly and time-consuming regulation, to say nothing of a 2.3 percent excise tax, looms large over this industry"
"the fact that we are having such a hearing is a testament to the breadth of innovation using wireless smartphones and tablets"
"the overbroad application of FDA regulation and the health care law's medical device tax are not, as some have suggested, outside the realm of possibility."
"why would we treat mobile applications the same as a dialysis machine?"
"We owe it to the state and local first responders that risk their lives for ours."
"I favored construction from the bottom up, not the top down, with certain minimum interoperability requirements."
"The legislation as adopted was not my preferred approach for many of the reasons expressed in today's prepared testimony."
"I am a firm believer that the work of Congress begins, not ends, when a bill is enacted into law."
"We cannot design the 911 system to cover every contingency but we should learn from our experiences to improve it whenever and however we can."
"Well, it feels like an insider deal to me in terms of federal government pretending to represent somebody it is not."
"One of my questions, though, is how is this money getting spent? Where are the stewards of the taxpayers' dollars?"