I want to thank the Committee leadership, Senators Moran and Schatz, as well as their co-sponsors...

The value that that spectrum delivers to the economy is hard to overstate.

Isn't there a way to balance these concerns and make sure that member companies can deploy quickly after the auction while also protecting our constituents' access to local news?

I am appalled that the White House withdrew all pending nominations for Federal commissions. That is an unnecessarily provocative act.

But it is a race, and it will be important that we make the right policy decisions here.

We all want faster Internet service and better wireless service coverage that will result from the current incentive auction.

I think we're really poised to lead.

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Anti-Semitism

20 is the number of bomb threats that were called into Jewish institutions in our communities across the country yesterday--in just 1 day. In Alabama, Delaware, Michigan, Maryland, Virginia, and in my home State of Hawaii, in my Temple…

last November, I was in Maui celebrating the 100th anniversary of Haleakala National Park. The weather at the summit of the volcano was terrible. It was raining in sheets, with 40- mile-per-hour wind driving the rain sideways, but I was…

I would argue that the time to ask that question what will we do is now.

no one wants to live on a dirty planet. Before we created the Environmental Protection Agency, the EPA, nearly 50 years ago, rivers actually caught fire from pollution, smog covered our cities, and powerplants spewed arsenic and mercury…

Well, I thank the Senator for the question. This is what is happening today. It would be enough if we were in the process of debating and confirming a climate-denier to the EPA. It would be enough that this person is a plaintiff in 17…

in late October, people who lived in a place called Donora shrugged off the thick, yellow smog that had covered their small town. It was 1948. It wasn't unusual to see a smog blanket the town, thanks to the zinc plant and the steel mill…

I thank the Senator for the question. I just want to ask the Presiding Officer what the parliamentary situation is; has my 60 minutes expired? The PRESIDING OFFICER. It has not.

But Mr. Pruitt did more than close Oklahoma's Environmental Protection Unit. He also started a new unit solely dedicated to suing the EPA. He closed the Environmental Protection Unit and set up a unit to sue the EPA. That is all they do…

I thank the Senator from Oregon. I have been thinking a lot about the job of the EPA Administrator. It is one of those things we have taken for granted over many, many years, that we are going to get someone who is going to sort of play it…

Well, I thank the Senator from Rhode Island. I think one of the great challenges is that it is one thing to misunderstand the EPA's role here; that is dangerous enough as the attorney general of a State or the head of the Republican…