Mike Lee

In the end it is the little guy who pays for it.

I want to give particular thanks and a shout-out to Senator Klobuchar.

It is a completely bipartisan bill in the spirit with trying to get things done in a bipartisan way.

We encourage the State Department to issue Chinese visitor visas that last longer than the current one-year maximum.

We require the State Department to develop premium processing to expedite issuance of tourist and business visas.

We permit Canadian snowbirds to stay here for 60 more days a year.

We set tough standards for visa processing times.

I believe that the market still has a very high degree of regard, very high regard for Chairman Bernanke, but I believe it is not as solidly entrenched as it was under Greenspan.

There are some things about our current monetary policy that trouble me.

Thank you, Senator Wyden. And I'd also like to thank Senator Baucus and the witnesses today for coming in to provide testimony on these pieces of legislation.

At the outset, I'd like to speak in support of the Scofield Land Transfer Act, which, if passed, would resolve an issue that has existed for more than a decade.

I want to commend you on a very effective use of the word 'lugubrious.'

Is the precedent, by the way, for the FCC coming up with a spectrum screen, a new spectrum screen or something analogous to that in the middle of a transaction without going through the notice and comment process first?

Before I run out of time, Mr. Milch, I want to ask you.

So you do not necessarily disagree with those who are suggesting that the spectrum screen ought to be revised.

With the higher frequency, it has got more carrying capacity, but one of the disadvantages is it cannot go through----

I think Congress has recognized in the National Cooperative Research Act of 1984 and elsewhere and recognized that the antitrust laws needed to be sensitive to the potential benefits that joint R&D develop.

The announcement late last year of commercial agreements between four of the country's largest cable companies and the country's largest wireless phone services company understandably attracted some attention.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thanks to all of you for coming.

And it was imposed initially without a notice of proposed rulemaking.

Hundreds of millions of Americans pay for cell phones, cable television, home Internet connections, and for home landline connections to the telephone network.

Some have argued that the wireless market is tending toward a duopoly and that additional spectrum should be sold only to smaller wireless service providers.

We are not simply incarcerating more and more people.

We cannot afford an inpatient program, and at least they will not be using while they are in your jail.

The Senate has already confirmed more than 80 percent of President Obama's judicial nominees, approving a larger share without a roll call vote than the Senate did under President Bush.