Greg Walden

Uncertainty is what we hoped to stave off by introducing legislation that would clearly demarcate the FCC's authority over the Internet.

Our calls for transparency have been echoed by others to no avail.

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.

I don't believe our draft does that.

There is no overwhelming evidence of clear market failure that would drive to deep regulatory control from Washington top down.

What is before us today, though, is the President is now turning the FCC into his open puppeteer here.

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.

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.

My priority is to protect consumers and the Internet we all rely upon.

It is time for a fresh approach from we who are elected to write the law and to set the Nation's communications policy.

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 together a regulatory scheme and…

That is why we put forward draft legislation to provide consumers the protections they deserve while not choking off investment and innovation.

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 country.

North Carolina: William Blount, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson. South Carolina: John Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler. Georgia: William Few, Abraham Baldwin.

Representative Greg Walden criticized the FCC for having spent $352 million on IT over the last 5 years.

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.

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.

Unfortunately, like so many really, really good pieces of bipartisan legislation, H.R. 3675 remains stuck and stalled in the Senate.

The American people deserve no less.

Thank you, Chairman Scott, Ranking Member Schrader, and Members of the Committee for the opportunity to provide testimony today on the troubling enforcement tactics utilized by the U.S. Department of Labor on Oregon farmers.

I think these are important issues, and it is this subcommittee's duty and responsibility to address these topics.

I think that is the survival lifeline.

I also commend my colleagues, Representatives Latta and Welch, as well as Senators Fischer and Rockefeller.

I want to recognize the FCC for their work on this issue, led by Commissioners O'Rielly and Rosenworcel.

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