"We need a date certain. I mean time is marching on. This story shocked folks and rightly so because everybody in America is just devastated by what is happening to friends, to family, to loved ones."
"The vast majority of them are going to come home in a body bag."
"Let me just say, as a rural person, I am urging you and the industry to find a way to protect that broadband signal but to get broadband into rural areas. It has got to happen."
"You are going to let them have a seat at the table to challenge?"
"Rural America is being left behind. And the promise of the 1996 act has been broken."
"Why change the existing regime where everyone agrees there is an open internet?"
"We need that across the board."
"Folks there in a hospital are working hard, not making a lot of money, and are the vital community institution in Newport, Vermont."
"I think you are doing a good job."
"if we don't have this done right, if we go too fast, one of two things is going to happen."
"the bottom line, at a certain point if these are going to be deployed some entity has to decide yes, it is good to go."