I do hope we will be able to complete the Internet access bill and that we can work through the turn of events of today. Again, I hope over the course of the evening people will come back and lay out a plan to accomplish what is important to the technology community and the communications community broadly, and that is to be able to allow people to vote on the very important underlying bill.
Discussing the progress of the Internet access bill during Senate floor debate.
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