Ron Johnson

I think a sunset committee is a great idea. I have been proposing one since I got here.

I was kind of surprised at the implementation rate--12 percent implemented, 66 percent partially implemented--but I am not really seeing the dollar savings.

I believe Senator Coburn--I do not want to speak for him, but I think he estimates the total dollar cost of those duplicated programs is somewhere approaching $300 billion per year.

So, Mr. Chairman, I think the way we need to do this is we need to pass a budget with those recommendations attached and remove the dollars that those recommendations say we can save, and I think that is how you get the thing done.

I am just trying to get some sort of feel of overall numbers, overall value.

But broadband providers are paying for their spectrum? They have already purchased it? It has been auctioned off?

I don't think government is particularly good at trying to redirect that business model very effectively.

If you just go where the money is, you are going to go to New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, a few other big cities, and rural folks get left out.

Let's not have government step in and screw it up.

I think that is something the private market ought to institute, not a government solution.

So, in other words, your association does support subsidizing certain programs over others?

But is it fair for some content to subsidize the other content, which is basically what you are doing as you bundle?

There is either a breakdown in the competitive model or there is not.

That was actually probably a pretty good deal, right?

It is perfectly legal, but it is wrong, Mr. President, when a hard-working secretary pays more to support her government than 60 of the richest corporations in the land.

I just cannot believe that, he said.

I think you need to fully understand what went wrong in the State Department.

We are a phenomenal force for good.

I think the whole smoke screen of having prosecutions be the reasons that we are not able to gain access to the survivors is strictly that.

I am, as a United States Senator, incredibly frustrated that we have been denied access to the survivors.

I think the top priority that I certainly expect out of anybody representing this Nation is to represent us well, recognizing really what an exceptional nation this is, how although not perfect, America has just been a phenomenal force for…

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So the day of reckoning will come.

A country has to look back before it can move forward. Instituting a doctrine of mea culpa would enhance our credibility by showing that American decisionmakers do not endorse the sins of the predecessors.

I was very disappointed in President Obama early in his term going around the country on, you know, basically what has been called as an apology tour.