Greg Walden

I was a journalism major, not a math major, but I think that leaves 1,200 apps in a state of regulatory uncertainty, roughly.

So is it accurate to say that Obamacare is driving this sort of medical technology and innovation to other countries because of this tax?

Wireless has and can continue to be a system that brings the mobile revolution to our Nation's health and wellness sector.

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?

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

Well, it feels like an insider deal to me in terms of federal government pretending to represent somebody it is not.

I am a firm believer that the work of Congress begins, not ends, when a bill is enacted into law.

I favored construction from the bottom up, not the top down, with certain minimum interoperability requirements.

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.

The legislation as adopted was not my preferred approach for many of the reasons expressed in today's prepared testimony.

We owe it to the state and local first responders that risk their lives for ours.

If we are going to spend money out, that is where it should have gone.

This is my money in effect--it is pretty damning.

That clearly identifies the problem and the waste here and calls for future investigations?

So you are happy with the outcome in West Virginia is what I hear you defending. Is that correct?

I want to welcome our witnesses today for this hearing, which will look at all these issues related to how the stimulus money was spent on building out broadband.

At a time when President Obama and his administration is threatening to lay off meat inspectors, FAA controllers, TSA agents, throw Head Start students out of class, and cut teachers as the best way to deal with the sequester, our…

One of my questions, though, is how is this money getting spent? Where are the stewards of the taxpayers' dollars?

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?

It is pretty damning.

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 have talked about, and avoid…

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 commercial basis.

I don't believe any addition of middle-mile capacity to our Nation's infrastructure should in any way be considered overbuild.