Mike Lee

This broadband, this is with existing bandwidth you have already got, this does not require an additional acquisition of bandwidth?

my sense of due process is such that I feel the need to give you the chance to respond to Mr. Lieberman's statement

satellite is not a particularly good technology so far; at least the physics of it do not seem to really work very well

Today's hearing, of course, involves AT&T's recent announcement of its intention to acquire DIRECTV.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

By ensuring that we protect competition and not any individual company or competitor, we can help create market conditions that benefit consumers and promote economic development.

the importance of broadband appears to be on the increase, you know, as consumers are increasingly relying on that medium

And really quickly on that, what is your response to Mr. Wood's point about the fact that if you synthesize the synthetic agreements better, you could achieve the same thing without the merger?

The Federal Government owns about 30 percent of the land mass in the United States, and about two-thirds of the land in my own state.

So this hurts the poor more than anyone else.

Energy development has not occurred at the same pace in recent years on federal land, particularly onshore development has not occurred at the same pace.

A much better approach is The Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013 which passed the House over a year ago, but has stalled in the Democrat-controlled Senate.

Economist Casey Mulligan argues the President's Affordable Care Act will push more young women out of the full-time work.

I assume you would not disagree with that?

It has always been striking to me that federal law puts us in a position where we even need legislation like this.

I think it is important for all of us to remember that, you know, whenever people have increased flexibility they can live their lives better.

But it seems particularly unfair that we tell hourly employees who are not government workers that they do not have the same advantage.

I think that is a great example of how many of these restrictions that are publicly touted as ways of protecting the little guy actually end up hurting the little guy.

So why did the President and Congressional Democrats fight so hard to deny women in the workforce this important choice?

Several regulatory factors tend to add rigidity to the labor market, restricting job growth and labor flexibility.

And thank you for your efforts on behalf of our country. You have got a tough job.

Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you, Secretary Johnson, for joining us today.

I think that is a little bit different than prosecutorial discretion, isn't it? Isn't that a mandate not to enforce the law?

my concern is that when you have a national memorandum with national impact... that is meaningfully, legally, constitutionally different than what you have described.

This is a law that, as you know, was enacted in 1986. There are some interesting ramifications that this law has.