Orrin Hatch

Does the BCS comply with the law?

Well, so would it not be safe to say that a reasonable case can be made under both the per se and rule-of-reason analysis that there is a violation here?

Once they do that, then you have to comply.

Is it fair to pick teams when you do not even go and see--when the criteria does not require you to even go and see a game?

The BCS proponents have claimed that the current BCS system, including the distribution of BCS revenues and the system for awarding BCS bids, is required by the marketplace.

I believe it will address a number of important issues, not the least of which is the legality of the Bowl Championship Series.

These disadvantages are not the result of fair competition, but of the inherent structural inequities of the BCS system.

That is a long time away.

The law is that competition, and not a group of self-designated competitors who should be competing, makes the rules.

No, but they can decide what is right and wrong.

You tell Osborne I want a University of Utah game.

Isn't it fair to say that it is exclusionary?

However, last year both the PAC 10 and the Mountain West had exactly one team qualify for a BCS game.

The BCS continues to place nearly half of all the schools in college football at a competitive and, perhaps more importantly, a financial disadvantage.

Now, this, I believe, poses two problems.

I haven't seen it as one.

It has completely destroyed good feelings toward the Government in that whole community.

Mr. Milch, I understand that you have stated that Verizon is attempting to steer its customers toward bundled plans. Now, could one do this in a truly competitive market devoid of undue market power?

Mr. Watts, PPU prices are going up. How can you argue that AT&T is not exerting undue market power in the PPU market if prices continue to rise and your companies are charging comparably higher rates?

I want to say to Bob Casey who's taken a tremendous interest in children's issues and I'm very grateful to him.

I appreciate, Mr. Williams, your comments about those issues, as well, coming from a private carrier, how important that is, as well.

I saw a study the other day by the way on obesity, since that's one of the four areas we've identified.

I would be opposed to a government plan.

I personally think that's impossible because of all the State and Federal regulations that are imposed on private plans that a government plan would never be subjected to.

History already teaches us this lesson. In 1965, Medicare started as a political compromise where it would pay the same rates as the private sector.