Peter Welch actually said...

"Just think about it, that that short window of time, it depends on the phone system working, and it doesn't work right now."

"But this is about basic telephones. And it is pretty astonishing when you think about it that you can't have confidence as a business or as an individual that your call is going to go through."

"And what is important for it is that it is an indication that this committee is sincerely committed to making certain that the tools of the modern economy, let alone the telephone, are available to fo..."

"I hope that means that we will be able to focus on some of the other efforts that require some bipartisan cooperation like the homework gap in like the deployment of 5G."