I just encourage you to be fair, flexible, and focused, but also keep in mind that second F, that flexibility, because o...
You do not want the carriers who are providing the services all the way through the system like they are supposed to and...
I support the reform that you are talking about, but I am concerned about the impact it may have on our small companies.
We want to make sure that we are focusing on next generation broadband communications but that we are not leaving behind...
Do you anticipate having to increase USF fees in order to do this?
I think my State has a good story to tell there. The numbers in my State are going in the right direction, but it has ta...
About 57 percent of all students in Arkansas are economically disadvantaged, and more than 1,700 students in my State ta...
I think it is next week or the week after. I am not sure.
I would suggest the Pine Bluff arsenal may be a good place that a lot of that could be done.
I would just encourage you to continue on that track and even put more resources there if that is what you need to do.
It is important to pretty much every Senator in the Senate because we all have some rural areas and some challenges out ...
My sense is, in talking to people in Pine Bluff and that area--they have kind of a regional chamber of commerce--is that...
There is going to be an economic impact of about $100 million annually to Pine Bluff and that area.
As that thing closes down and that goes away and we lose all of that, it is going to have about a $100 million impact to...
the Guard and the reserve component is really the key to our readiness today.
I think it may be time to look at that.
I would like to ask, if I can, maybe General Boozer and also Mr. Hansen a little bit about the Pine Bluff arsenal.
The fundamental difference between now and then besides the fact that all of the indicators have gotten worse so people ...