I join my friend and colleague from New Jersey and ask our colleagues to support passage of this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.

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

There are actually a thousand, exactly a thousand provisions within the CFRs.

Most of you know that I did not see the need for net neutrality rules, and some of my colleagues had to be dragged 'kicking and screaming' toward our draft bill.

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 hope that all of us here in the room will continue to engage in a productive dialogue and use the tools at our, and only our, disposal to end the net neutrality debate once and for all.

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 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.

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

I don't believe our draft does that.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I thank the chairman of the committee. Mr. Speaker, last July the House of Representatives passed H.R. 4572, the STELA Reauthorization Act, by unanimous vote. Today, after extensive consultation with our colleagues in the Senate, we are…

The chairman of the Rules Committee has actually read the bills that are in this package and knows that they are much more than what my colleague and friend from Colorado just described. Because actually, the forestry legislation is…

I thank the chairman of the Natural Resources Committee who has been most helpful in our endeavors in the West on the issues of private property, water rights, improving the health of our forest, and diminishing wildfires through active…

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

The American people deserve no less.

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

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.