Jay Rockefeller

It is essential to improve the implementation of the GI bill and make the changes necessary on living allowances, transfer of benefits to dependents and clear rules on unique circumstance like foreign study.

Isn't that sort of like the difference between a veterans' hospital and a Vet Center?

I look forward to working with my colleagues and with the FCC in a bipartisan manner to engage all spectrum stakeholders to ensure America keeps pace with the coming mobile revolution.

I fought last year to make sure that the Recovery Act included programs designed to bring broadband to everybody in this country no matter who they are, and no matter where they live.

West Virginia is mourning the loss of 29 brave miners who died last week--most of whom never knew what hit them--when a devastating explosion tore through the Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, WV. It has brought the whole State to a dead…

I am very concerned that the Commission is going to overstep its Congressional authority.

I wanted to see concrete action on the day that the plan is delivered because I believe we need real broadband solutions for real people.

Universal broadband service is the promise of a fair shot at economic opportunity.

The report has over 200 recommendations, but it takes no action and suggests no action.

In West Virginia, one in five households lacks access to broadband service.

I am so shocked. I am so embarrassed.

I want the agency to use all of its existing authority.

I think that if you look at the history of the really soft regulatory touch that we have had on the Internet, that has been very positive.

I do believe that the private sector is more the answer than the Government in trying to reach those last parts of our population who are currently underserved.

This is a committee, at least so long as I am Chairman, that is here to protect people, to protect consumers.

Broadband is more than a technology. It is a platform for social and economic opportunity.

I am going to challenge the FCC to make the hard choices that will help bring broadband to every corner of our country.

I think Comcast certainly had the right to appeal that the FCC did not have the Congressional authority.

I hope that the Commission will continue its successful light-touch approach, as was described by my colleague, Senator Hutchison, to the Internet and will now abandon what I believe was a misguided pursuit of net neutrality regulations.

I am fairly sure they could not have read anything about interoperable first responders because really nothing has happened.

I, as Chairman, will take that task on.

I have always wondered if this day would come, when I could stand on the Senate floor before my colleagues and say those words: We did it. We passed comprehensive health care reform. Many have come before us and we have worked together for…

Expanding air service to metropolitan airports is always a very contentious issue. I believe it is important that we give due consideration to local interests when considering the addition of slots, particularly at National Airport…

I have no doubt that Major General Robert Harding is ready and qualified to lead the agency effectively.

We are here today because FAA reauthorization is about so much more than aviation. It has everything to do with safety for our people, it is about jobs, it is about our economy, it is about, frankly, our self-esteem as a nation in the…