. >> thank you, ms. keddy. >> thank you, chairman lee, senator klobuchar, senator hatch, on behalf of public knowledge, i appreciate the opportunity to testify today. senator klobuchar, your comments about your past reminded me about bill mcgowan, the great leader of mci, and here we have some wonderful ceos who are totally committed to serving consumers and making a lot of promises and certainly have represented an image of a highly committed maverick approach, and that was the essence of mci and bill mcgowan. but that was bought by verizon and that is not the bill mcgowan maverick company that mci was. so i start with that by saying that this issue is not about promises. there are a lot of interesting things that need to be thoroughly investigated by the department of justice in reviewing a merger. this is about law enforcement. this is about what the clayton act requires, as passed by congress, the justice department to enforce the law. in doing that, promises are interesting and certainly thoroughly review

ms. keddy has more than 17 years experience leading and managing wireless and mobile broadband technology and product areas. ms. keddy holds a degree in computer engineering from bombay university in india and an ms degree in computer science from clemson. gene kimmelman is the president and ceo of public knowledge. he previously served as director of the internet freedom and human rights project at the new america foundation and his chief counsel for the u.s. department of justice's antitrust division. mr. kimmelman is a graduate of brown university and the university of virginia law school, where he received the schwartzman fellowship. he was also a fulbright fellow. dr. roslyn layton is a visiting scholar at the american enterprise institute, where she focuses on evidence-based policy for information, communications, and digital technology industries. she is also a visiting researcher at holberg university center for communication, media, and information technologies and a vice president at