Jay Rockefeller

A West Virginia hospital recently told me about two young ovarian cancer patients who traveled several hours to reach the hospital and start their treatment. When they arrived, the hospital had to send them home.

There should be no shortage of life-saving $6 drugs, period.

If Congress intends to rely on competition to fix the video space, it must ensure that the Internet is not starved of content or strangled by cable gatekeepers.

I believe that this is illegal under the Communications Act, but if the courts find that the Act is ambiguous in this area, the Congress should make it clear that this type of close collaboration between two wireless broadband networks is…

$4 billion in a year back to consumers, that is pretty good.

It seems that a right grounded in constitutional copyright is preferable to a manufactured right.

Any tampering with retransmission consent laws and rules now could trigger severe negative results to a broadcast television industry.

My point in chairing this committee is how can we do a better job of protecting consumers.

The best protection for consumers is competition and choice.

Congress should resist those entreaties, especially since retransmission consent is not broken.

I do not believe, however, that local broadcasters need government intervention to be viable.

That is what the health insurance industry did to us, and we stopped it.

Encouraging the FCC to become an active participant in retransmission consent negotiations would serve to hinder the current free market negotiations.

It is not our role to manage or to control any business or industry in this country.

When consumers lose channels in these corporate disputes, they should get a refund, I believe.

I highly doubt that many consumers would agree. They feel that they have to pay too much and they have very little choice in picking the content that they desire to receive or can receive.

I introduced the Next Generation Television Marketplace Act to begin withdrawing government meddling from the video industry.

Real competition should be bringing rates down.

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Their argument was that gambling meant bigger purses, better horses coming to Florida, more people at the tracks, and more people gambling. It was supposed to be good for the state and good for racing. But it was nonsense.

Congress should not tolerate doping and cheating in interstate horseracing.

This great sport has reached a terrible level of corruption and exploitation.

In my home state of New Mexico, horseracing is a $400 million a year industry supporting 10,000 jobs.

The chronic abuse of horses with painkillers and other drugs is just plain wrong, and it's dangerous.