Jay Rockefeller

As part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Senator Snowe and I established the E-Rate program to provide schools and libraries with affordable access to telecommunications services and the Internet.

The architecture, the open architecture of the Internet, was created with nondiscrimination rules so that anybody anywhere can see and visit and experience anybody anywhere else.

The FCC has enormous, wide-ranging authority, and the question is, will it exercise it, will it expand it, will it not exercise it.

Chairman Rockefeller expanded the investigation by sending a similar information request letter to Affinion Group, Inc.

Member Hersman is undoubtedly qualified to tackle our country's most pressing transportation safety issues.

I fully agree with the CRS and DoJ analysis that Mr. Bolden meets the requirement that the Administrator be appointed from civilian life.

I am delighted that President Obama selected Polly for this important role.

It's a hundred million people. They're vulnerable. And therefore they deserve to be treated with respect and with care.

This is not like two equally powerful groups facing each other. This is this mammothly powerful group and this very small, fragile group in need.

I happen to be one of those people who favors a public plan.

It's un-American. It's against the free enterprise system. It is the free enterprise system.

We could do this with other conditions as well to try to show on the label how much this would cost.

We need to increase the use of passenger rail enormously, not just for passengers but for freight.

Thirteen billion--and I know what Senator Thune said, and he's right--in one sense, $13 billion is a lot of money.

I have been assigned a time at 3:15 p.m. That's kind of for life, for her, should she win, which I think she will.

I believe passenger rail can do so much for our transportation network, our environment, and our energy security.

We can't be content to just build out an ordinary system.

I believe that passenger rail can do so much for us as a country.

we need to treat the high-speed rail network as a national system, just like the interstate highway.

Transportation affects our climate change, it affects one-third of our greenhouse emissions in this country.

It is so refreshing to have such strong leadership from this Administration that brings attention to the real importance of passenger rail.

the biggest challenge is going to be to get a majority of Congress to agree that high-speed passenger rail should be competitive with other modes.

the biggest challenge we must overcome first is getting Congress to agree that high-speed rail is a modal choice.

We need to focus our resources to move goods more efficiently and reduce congestion and emissions.

I would like to commend Chairman Rockefeller and Subcommittee Chairman Lautenberg for introducing legislation that seeks to establish a new approach and a new standard for the next surface transportation reauthorization.