No current CS officers or LES would be eliminated.
I hope as you do those, they will be geographically dispersed, not just concentrated around urban areas.
I would hope that would be a priority for the Administration, and I hope that we would do that in a bipartisan way.
Congress must take notice of the changing landscape for facilities-based operators because when a small cable system ser...
This is actually the first in a series of hearings that we intend to hold on the state of the communications in the Unit...
If the larger carriers were here, they'd tell you they've invested billions in rural America to try to provide service, ...
The impact that high-speed broadband can have on economic development in rural areas... cannot be overstated.
We, in Congress, must ensure that any digital divide that exists between urban and rural areas is effectively bridged, a...
I hope this will position our subcommittee, not only as a forum for education and debate on the current state of communi...
Let's go ahead and have our witnesses take their seats and have the audience sit down.
Thank you.
I want to thank all the witnesses for being here today.
And is that the kind of thing where you get the GAO report and then you just go to work implementing it, or is there con...
Six Committees? No wonder you never come to Homeland Security.
It is important for the government to do this and important for us to have that oversight.
So, in terms of the GAO recommendations, are you halfway through? Are you three-quarters of the way through? Have you im...
Do we have good metrics to know what is working and what does not work?
No, I agree, and I think, you know, one of our previous witnesses said the same thing in the sense that one size does no...