On the recordJuly 15, 2014
I thank Chairman Goodlatte for bringing this piece of legislation forward, and I appreciate the bipartisan manner in which it is done. The Internet is working. It is working. It is one of the great things about our economy. It is one of the great things that is happening in this country. It is creating jobs, and it is creating excitement with the younger generation. It is providing for innovation. We are leading the world in what we are doing. Access is not necessarily available to everybody. We have people from inner cities to Indian reservations to rural communities to those who are just seeking to try to be part of this community and have access and get information and be informed and be educated and allowed to engage in commerce. Since 1998, this has been the position of the United States of America, and if you look at the Internet, it truly is interstate commerce. We can be standing side by side, right next to each other, and you can send a tweet or a Facebook message or an email, whatever sort of electronic communication, and it literally can zoom around the country--hopefully through Utah--and then back to the person standing right next to you. {time} 1315 But in order for all that to work, the magic of the Internet and all that to work, it needs to be unimpeded.…
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