Sens. John McCain and Richard Blumenthal are sponsoring the Television Consumer Freedom Act, a bill that would allow us to pay for cable channels individually, giving us more control over what we choose to buy and watch.

Our competition-free cable system requires consumers to pay for hundreds of channels they don't want as their cable and broadband bills climb higher and higher.

This pro-consumer bill would provide incentives for cable companies to offer an "a la carte" option in which consumers would pay for only the channels they want to watch, introducing choice and affordability into the cable market. I urge you to support this important bill.