Rick Boucher: “The purpose of this license was never to subsidize satellite service. It was always to serve people who could not get a…”

The first of these is that the Republican offer for imbedding strong network neutrality principles in the statute be accepted by Democrats.

Let us not upset that very workable formula. Keep Title I in place.

I think it moves in the right direction, and I think it is important to note how far the Republicans have now moved toward the historic Democratic position.

I think very simply because both sides now have quite a bit of leverage, and when both sides have leverage roughly equal, and I think that is the situation today, it is the optimal circumstance for legislating.