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

it is pretty damning.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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…

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...

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

It is important we do these period look-backs.

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.

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

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

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

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

Over 2 weeks ago, I came to this floor to ask for answers from the Department of Labor on behalf of Oregon farmers. Well, yesterday, I did get a letter from the Secretary, which I appreciated, but it was not answering our questions from…

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.

I thank my colleague and friend for the time. I rise today in support of Senate Concurrent Resolution 50, which, as you've heard, opposes international regulation of the Internet. It is virtually identical to the language that our friend…

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 my colleagues who have brought this legislation forward as well. Again, this, like the prior bill, it's a partnership between Senator Wyden and myself, as we've worked together to resolve some of these land issues out in Oregon…

I want to thank my colleagues here on the floor today for their support of this legislation, S. 270, the La Pine Land Conveyance Act. This legislation was originally crafted over in the Senate by my friend and colleague, Senator Wyden…

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