"what recommendations would you have for these agencies to make sure that sort of waste doesn't occur that has been identified in the West Virginia audit?"
"That is my point in this oversight hearing and in the arguments I made, frankly, when this bill was being marked up a number of years ago to say go serve the unserved areas first, the places you all h..."
"4 percent is a lot of my district that didn't have access to broadband and that the federal money should go into those areas where it is really difficult to make a financial case for broadband on a co..."
"I don't believe any addition of middle-mile capacity to our Nation's infrastructure should in any way be considered overbuild."
"Did they use a competitive bidding process in West Virginia in accordance with their statutes? No, they did not according to the auditor. Correct?"
"A 5,500 square foot library in a town of 1,500 needs a $20,000 router?"
"Republicans won't tolerate wasteful government spending, and it appears we have uncovered millions that fit that category."
"My suggestion to both Colorado and West Virginia, if the money wasn't supposed to be spent the way you spent it, the federal taxpayers deserve to have it all back."
"The decision to spend the federal funds on oversized routers resulted in millions of dollars in federal funds not being spent on expanding the states fiber-optic broadband network."
"If the Obama Administration was going to spend this money wisely, it would have targeted it to the 4 percent of the country where there is no economic business case to be made for private sector inves..."
"this is my money in effect--it is pretty damning."