I have sponsored an amendment to the MOBILE NOW bill that would ask agencies involved to complete a report on this issue.

I was pleased to join a number of my colleagues yesterday in a letter led by Senator Manchin and Senator Gardner that asks the FCC to work with the FCC and industry to address the shortcomings in the existing coverage data.

And when we start looking at only one factor, such as green renewables, which is an agenda-driven policy, and we take a look away from what has driven this economy and our energy resilience, I have an issue with that.

What we are doing is you are allowing agencies to... set policy for the DOE and when DOE becomes a source of agenda-driven issues rather than really focusing on making sure that we have reliable and effective, efficient energy sources to…

It seems as if there are a lot of folks who think that we may be getting to an inflection point.

It has always been that folks have always feared that technology would disrupt jobs, jobs would be destroyed.

I want to commend Chairman Thune for including in his MOBILE NOW legislation language that would create a Federal infrastructure asset data base.

how important this is for our auto industry, in particular, for saving lives, where we know that these applications will save tens of thousands of lives.

Thank you so much.

Buy-backs, as we know, can make earnings reports look better and improve short-term executive compensation, and foster short-term thinking in the corporate governance.

Prior to 1982, buy-backs were a very limited use of corporate profits.

The rise in payouts to shareholders may be related to the decline in the startup rate of young firms who are more likely to reinvest their cash flow than mature firms.

It feels a little bit to me like the shale discussion today, which is that we made a big bet on shale and gas and oil here.

You have painted a picture in which in 2016 Russia will have very limited choices with which to continue to keep the operation going.

This is important because we do want to come back here in a year or 2 years and find out that there is a person that stops this whole process.

When 68 percent of it, following your decision, goes toward that sector, then we've got what young people in colleges and graduate schools all across America want to do.

I believe an ISP has a duty to protect the privacy of consumers who use the company's wired and wireless infrastructure to connect to the world.

My hope would be that the Commission would look at it, ensuring that the guiding principles are competition, competition, competition.