then fred upton and ed markey. and, you know, markey and upton then sterns, and sterns and boucher. it's always had a tradition of bipartisanship. gregg and i worked on a number of issues together. there's always an an impetus to try to move forward in a bipartisan manner. >> host: sure. but this election in particular has been rather bipartisan. do you see that changing at all with the new crop of gop candidates coming in? do you think the subcommittee could become more polarized as some of these hot button issues become the key things that the subcommittee's considering? is. >> guest: well, the communications issues historically are not polarizing issues or hot button issues. it's not sort of, you know, the polarizing issue that health care is. so when you look at spectrum issues, broadband deployment, when you look at even privacy, none of these issues really break down in a partisan manner. i mean, sure, there are different approaches, but there aren't sort of categorically different approaches like in other policy areas. >> guest: i absolutely agree with howard on that point. i

then fred upton and ed markey. and then, ed markey and upton, then stearns and then stern and boucher. it's always had a tradition of bipartisanship. when gregg and i were there together we worked a number of issues together. there's always been an impetus in the subcommittee to find common ground to try to move forward and bipartisan manner. >> host: do you think this election in particular has been rather partisan in the last couple weeks have been so as well. you see that changed at all with the new crop of gop candidates coming in? to think maybe the subcommittee could become particularly more polarized as some of these have been issues become the key things that the subcommittee is considering? >> guest: the communication issues historically are not either sort of polarizing issues are hot button issues. i mean, it's not the sort of polarizing type of issue like health care is. so when you look at spectrum issues come when you look at broadband deployment, when elected even privacy, none of these issues break down in a partisan manner. i mean, there are different approaches. but t