Our biggest fear is that the other issue -- the undocumented workers -- bogs down and threatens the entire bill.

Our message to the president and Congress is simple--let's work together to get a program done this year.

The bottom line is we want more and more R&D to be done here [in the U.S.].

Maybe the R&D growth isn't as fast as the overall growth of the company, but it's still significant growth. We want to award companies that do that.

A decade ago, people would have said this is outrageous consolidation, but today, given competition with cable and other providers, there may be less concern now.