I think we all agree that in a 21st century economy, making certain that the creative economy has the space in which to work and expand.

I thank the gentleman from Kentucky for his leadership on this bill. Mr. Chairman, it is so interesting to me. We had a 2,700-page health care bill that basically was a government takeover of health care. What we have heard from so many…

I find it very interesting that there are some in this room who seem to believe that individuals can't make their own decisions about health insurance.

I think there is also overreach to other things like data roaming and agencies scheming, which I think is a clever scheme, to socialize our mobile networks.

democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.

The reaction by Congress to protect its prerogatives ought to be severe.

we have little information on their background and how their background influences policy

The late Senator warned the President about this, that the White House was aggregating to itself powers that were in violation of the Constitution.

the implication of this action is that it fundamentally undermines the transparency the American taxpayer is entitled to

Manipulating science to achieve political goals needs to be reined in.

I appreciate the chairman for yielding to me, and I appreciate the opportunity to stand and speak against the Progressive Caucus budget because it is a budget that, once again, will spend too much money. Mr. Chairman, one of the things…

Thank you so much, and I want to thank you all for being here.

I do rise in support of H.R. 1217. I think this is an important bill for us to bring forward. And I want to thank the chairman for bringing it forward and for helping to lead this Congress in the repeal of ObamaCare. It is a message that…

I think there is some confusion about House Joint Resolution 37 and what it does. My colleagues seem to think this would impact the FCC's statutory authority, and I want to call their attention to the actual wording of the resolution. It's…

If my colleague across the aisle is having a tough time figuring this out, I think we can probably help with that explanation. First of all, if you like the Internet that you have, we are saying we want you to keep it. Mr. Speaker, there…

What we are talking about is that the application of this is the Fairness Doctrine of the Internet. {time} 1250

The gentleman knows that that is not relevant to the discussion that we are having here.

We all know that anytime you give the government the ability to assign priority and value to content, you have inserted them into the decision-making process. They would precede the responsibility of the Internet service providers. And the…

Also, in their net neutrality order, if you read paragraph 84, what it does is to bring an incredible amount of uncertainty to the innovative community and to the creative economy that our jobs growth is going to be based on, because what…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Any time you allow the Federal Government to step in to a process where they have not been involved in a process--and we did this not once but twice. We did it not once but twice.

Since the previous speaker talked a little bit about NPR and its listening audience, I would like to make certain that the record reflects a little bit about that listening audience. We know that more men than women listen to NPR, except…

At this time I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. King). {time} 1410

In response to this statement that there are no savings, may I point my colleagues to a CRS report on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Federal funding and issues, and I will be happy to submit this for the Record. Reading from it…

I think we all agree that this Nation's children, our children and our grandchildren are an incredibly important part of our lives and protecting those children, protecting their future. We all agree that it is important that we put this…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 1076, a bill to get the Federal Government--and Federal taxpayers--out of the business of buying radio programming they do not agree with. This is a…