Jay Rockefeller

Too much power in the hands of too few. That is really what the Comcast/Time Warner merger would produce.

Make no mistake, the video marketplace is at a tipping point.

You have been a leader on that issue, and your engagement on these issues and hopefully work with Senator Thune is enormously important.

nobody was a bigger consumer champion than you have been during your time in this committee and leading this committee.

We are pleased to see a section of Senator Rockefeller's Consumer Choice in Online Video Act devoted to updating the program access rules.

Consumers cannot wait for the 'mythical' re-write of the communications law.

I continue to believe that one of the core policy questions that the Congress must grapple with as it looks to reform video policy is how to nurture new competitive technologies and services.

Could that be manipulated to favor the company that owns the wire?

The divide in our country is bad and it is getting worse.

We need a video marketplace that more closely embodies the American values of free speech, fair competition and the rewarding of creativity and innovation.

Congress has an opportunity to encourage innovation, to promote competition, and to protect consumers, and we hope they do so.

My goal is to figure out a way to make sure every American has a free, robust, net neutral Internet as well as a broadband access that is affordable because it is becoming as essential as heat and water.

This gives the Commission the clearest path to enacting strong and open Internet rules.

This is a very serious hearing and a very important hearing.

We applaud that effort.

Are colleges and universities living up to their end of the bargain in providing them with a good education?

How did college sports benefit Mr. Napier on the nights he had to go to bed hungry?

I want to have an objective, open-minded and frank discussion on this subject.

How are young men, who strap on their helmets on a football field in front of 100,000 passionate and paying customers, how are they doing?

I believe that we're still falling a bit short of edifying and improving, augmenting, the aspect of the students.

Do the schools and athletic leagues sufficiently minimize the risk of concussions?

I'm concerned this could have unintended consequences on safety.

Delivering Consumers Better Health Care Value for their Premium Dollars: the Success Story of the Minimum Medical Loss Ratio Law

This piece of law is working, and it is on the way.

I will not take time now to detail how much time and money the opponents of the MLR law spent trying to kill it.