Today's Quote 06.13.06

Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) is open to consumer protections but is loath to interfere with commercial deals among phone and cable companies and the content providers, a committee staffer said. "If they [consumers] want Google, we want them to be able to access Google. I think that's Senator Stevens's view -- that people should be able to pick whatever content, whatever applications, whatever software . . . that they want," Stevens staff director Lisa Sutherland told reporters, saying a compromise had yet to be reached with the panel's top Democrat, Sen. Daniel K. Inouye (Hawaii). "A compromise requires two to tango, so we are not done tangoing yet," she added.