Do you have a timeline for us?

Among the many obstacles to closing the digital divide in Indian Country is the FCC's Eligible Telecommunications Carrier, or ETC designation.

To make sure E-Rate is reaching students in Indian Country we need to know that the FCC is not still using junk data to track tribal applications.

Would allowing more flexibility at E-Rate for innovation, like putting wi-fi on school buses, help address the digital divide in tribal schools faster?

Mr. Webre, the FCC issued guidance in 2012 about tribal engagement. The GAO reports that that guidance is now stale.

Your written testimony highlights the importance of tribal consultation, and tribal partnerships to shrink the digital divide in Indian Country.

Seeing it first-hand is tremendously important.

Eighty percent of those living on tribal lands in New Mexico do not have access to broadband.

It is time for a new authority for the Commission, a new direction, new authorities. It is time for a tribal broadband fund.

What practical recommendations are needed to help tribes access this Federal funding?

The first question I asked earlier had to do with tribal consultation and it being very important to shrinking the digital divide.

I think that Congress should look at it.

We need to connect our economy and invest in rural areas as opposed to just say to rural people they should move to the cities.

But let me suggest that maybe what we should have done here is to actually have a hearing with hourly workers to ask them how they are faring, rather than asking economists how workers are faring.

I would like to see the government measure how economic growth is distributed across households at different levels in the economy.

We do want to measure how these policies are affecting the middle class and the least among us.

Despite White House promises, working families aren't better off, and another hearing is not going to change that.

I don't think we can have a hearing on living standards without asking ourselves what will happen to the quality of life for tens of millions of Americans who count on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid if Republicans add literally…