Thank you very much.

I want to commend our witnesses today, but also the private sector and others for doing all that they've done to get us where we are today.

Maximizing broadband adoption needs to be a top priority of this subcommittee.

affordable broadband offers are required to increase adoption among low-income households.

Chairman Pryor and Ranking Member Wicker both eloquently described in their opening comments the challenges of increasing broadband adoption.

Our goal should be that all consumers be able to take full advantage of our 21st century broadband economy.

I am optimistic that soon we will be able to enact legislation to reopen our government and affirm the world's longstanding confidence in our financial stability and system of democracy. The current situation is an unfortunate byproduct of…

I thank Ranking Member Price for yielding me time. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express strong opposition to H.J. Res. 79, the Border Safety and Security Act. This is the second time in 2 weeks that I have come to the House floor to…

With every passing day, more injury is done to our economy and our standing in the world. The once unthinkable--a default on U.S. debt--is looking more and more possible. We must stand together and inject some rationality here and bring an…

It seems that we have a new normal in the way we do our budget.

No one is happy about the current shutdown.

I agree with you [Captain Colburn] and with your written and oral testimony that the Secretary has the authority to do this and should do it.

I certainly now, looking at it from the outside, working with these agencies, would give anything if we could move back to the point where we really actually had appropriations bills passed year after year.

The purpose of this hearing is to explore the possibility that American citizens may leave this country to join terrorist groups.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Federal employees who return to work to help to respond to Tropical Storm Karen, the forecasted tornados, or any other disaster that strikes should be able to do that work with the peace of mind that…

Thank you very much, Ranking Member Price, for yielding this time. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to H.J. Res. 85. This is the latest in a string of measures that the Republican majority has brought to the floor in an…

I thank the chairman for yielding, for his leadership. To what lengths will the Democrats go in order to protect ObamaCare? They've already denied pay to National Guardsmen and -women and Reservists, ceased lifesaving medical research…

I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record at this time an opinion piece written by Kevin Hassett and Abby McCloskey on page 23 in today's Wall Street Journal entitled ``Obama Rewrites Debt-Limit History.'' There being no…