Greg Walden

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?

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.

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.

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 investment.

Republicans won't tolerate wasteful government spending, and it appears we have uncovered millions that fit that category.

I am just going to tell you, 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…

I want to commend the subcommittee chairman and the full committee chairman for moving to reauthorize something before it is expired.

In a tradition we've been observing every 5 years or so for a quarter century, today we begin discussing the law authorizing satellite video providers...

Thank you, Ms. Kieley, and I can assure you, we are not going to get between your viewers and Downton Abbey.

I supported the original legislation. I have supported all the reauthorizations, and I look forward to a similar situation in this committee in the near future.

We have an opportunity with our partners in the Judiciary Committee to examine whether the satellite law is still serving its purpose...

It is important we do these period look-backs.

Rest assured, we will have several more hearings, providing additional opportunity to consider not only the satellite issues directly before us...

I thought it was important for the subcommittee to be able to understand the issues and intent with this legislation.

Every megahertz of broadcast television spectrum that the FCC doesn't auction means less revenue to fund prerogatives already determined by this committee and this Congress.

Good fences make good neighbors. Where I come from in Oregon, we know that is the case whether it is crowded city blocks or sprawling ranches.

I thank the chairman, and I thank my good friend from California for his terrific work on this bipartisan piece of legislation which is very important to the citizens of this country. I also want to thank you for this colloquy. I plan to…

I now yield 3 minutes to a member of the Judiciary Committee who chairs the Intellectual Property, Competition, and the Internet Subcommittee and who has been one of our terrific leaders on the Republican side on the Internet with regard…

I'm now honored to yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Bono Mack), the sponsor of this legislation, the chairman of the Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and a very…

I thank the chairman for his work on not only this issue and working with us on this, but also your terrific dedication to the country over the years, and especially in moving this legislation forward. I yield back the balance of my time…

I would ask the gentleman from Florida if he would be willing to enter into a colloquy.

Anyone who wants to see evidence of climate change, I invite you to the islands where I am from.

I grew up on a cherry orchard and represented a lot of ag interests in Oregon, farmers and ranchers that just feel like there is a whole onslaught out of the Federal Government that is going to shut down our way of life in the West and…

If we want to spur investment, innovation and jobs, the time may have come to pull back on the laws of Congress and let the laws of economics do more of the work.