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.

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

That was actually probably a pretty good deal, right?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I just cannot believe that, he said.

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.

So the day of reckoning will come.

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

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

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 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…

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.

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the majority is contemplating taking action, breaking precedent, basically breaking the rules to change the Senate rules in a way that I believe would be incredibly damaging, if not very destructive, to the United States Senate

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.

So if they are spending $120 billion per year, can you break that out for me in terms of personnel versus procurement, weapons systems, ships?