Peter Welch actually said...

"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..."

"Anything we can do to help fill that gap is going to help students and the tethering you describe is ideal and could be really useful."

"Can we have some assurance that the rules that will be promulgated will take into account the extraordinary challenges that have existed in rural America about having access to the infrastructure that..."