mr. barton, mr. stearns, other members of the subcommittee who at our hearing and markup sessions in the subcommittee contributed richly to our dialogue and to structuring the legislation that we have before us this morning. it is a bipartisan measure. all of the committee members have been involved in this constructive exercise and i want to thank them for their participation. mr. speaker, i urge approval of the bill and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia reserves his time of the the gentleman from florida. mr. stearns: i request such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. stearns: mr. speaker, i also rise in support of h.r. 3125, the radio spectrum inventory act. as the gentleman from virginia mentioned, it's a very important bill and i urge its passage. this bill offers an opportunity to evaluate all of the frequency bands between 225 megahertz and 10 gigahertz and simply to determine who uses these frequ

mr. barton, what are some of the implications if congress does pass a bill saying that the fcc can regulate -- >> guest: well, you'd have less innovation on the internet, you'd have less freedom on the internet, you'd have over time a more restrictive internet, probably a higher cost internet, you'd slow down the broadband deployment. the private sector has spent billions and billions of dollars in the last decade putting in the infrastructure, and it's almost now ubiquitous that everybody in america not only has a pc where they, you know, at their home and at their work, but they also have a handheld device, a blackberry or an iphone, that has access to the internet. we're in the middle of a big success story, and keep in mind all the court ruled was, you know, comcast said it reserved the right to charge people that used a lot of their, a lot of their broadband capacity for hi-definition video and stuff, that comcast reserved the right to charge them a little bit more and, perhaps, on occasion to manage access at high peak times. now, comcast actually never did it, they just reserved the

dozens of people like mrs. barton went to the airport looking for families they could help. the bartons opened their home to the kerrs from scotland, total strangers. >> we just thought that's the right thing to do and let's do it. >> i'm so grateful to them that we had this opportunity, because we would still probably be stuck. >> reporter: so many americans are still stranded overseas. with that part of the story, my colleague miguel marquez. >> despite the good news that planes will start getting out of here, there are thousands of passengers trapped all over the world. they won't get home for days and we talked to some of them. stuck in paris. mike and molly romano from omaha, nebraska, spent a romantic week in the south of france for their ten-year wedding anniversary. >> this morning we said, we need to be a little more aggressive. to see if we can get back in the states. >> reporter: now they really want to get home, for three little reasons. their kids. >> josephine is the oldest. rory is 4, he's the boy, and alice 2. >> reporter: just hearing the names gets you upse

mr. barton: thank you very much. i am very -- mr. bartlett: thank you very much. i'm very pride to come here and support this bill. i want to thank the bill managers, mr. andrews, mr. conaway, mr. skelton, mr. mckeon, mr. ellsworth, mr. coffman who worked so diligently on this bipartisan legislation. i'm very pleased to join my colleagues, congressman quigley and congresswoman giffords in offering this amendment. this amendment provides the department of defense the full support of congress to use energy efficiency as a key tool to improve our national security and providing more value to taxpayers regarding our defense dollars. this amendment will send an important and strong signal to defense contractors that their bids will be more competitive if their product and services will use less energy. i urge support of this bill. i am very pleased that among all the institutions in our country, our defense departments are the most aggressive in pursuing good energy policies. we in the world face a huge crisis in energy, and i'm pleased that our defense department is l

mr. barton: i spent this weekend talking to people in my districts about the economy and jobs which is on the minds of the american people and many of them said, congressman, we would be spending money and expanding our business but congress is creating such an uncertainty that we don't know what to do. they're still trying to figure out how this health care bill will impact them and if congress will pass a cap and trade bill that will raise the cost of energy, they're hearing congress talk about v.a.t. taxes, gasoline taxes and they see congress spending and borrowing money i it doesn't have running up record deficits. they say, congressman, we're uncertain about the future in this country. when i go clubs and meetings, i ask people in the audience to raise their hands if they're live ought a better life than their parents. everybody's hand raises. when i ask how many people think that their children and grandchildren will live better than they are today, their hands are down. we cut spending, cut taxes and get the american people back to work. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays bef

mr. markey and senator kerrey is not neutral. it is just the opposite. it is a government regulation of the internet. >> joe barton is the ranking member of the energy and commerce committee and house of representatives. thank you joining us. >> my pleasure. >> we talked with the general counsel for the group and he argued in front of the three judge panel. >> when you are arguing for free press in front of the three judge panel, what was your strategy? >> they had already argued and it was clear by that point we were going to lose. the question was, how broad or narrow with the ruling be? the treasury -- the strategy was just to encourage the judge to have very clear guidance to the public and the fcc, which is exactly what the court did. >> when you said you knew you were going to lose, could you give some brief indications of how you got that vibe customer >> at that point, comcast had argued and gotten a few softballs. it was incredibly aggressive. when i knew we were going to be in the d.c. circuit, i had a pretty good idea we were going to lose. the last question that was asked was, if you are going to lose,