I have a few questions for the authors of this bill. What do you have against students? You are imposing an opportunity tax. A young Vermonter who wants to get a certificate in welding, or get a degree from our community college, and gets…

So let's just say we agree on regulations because we don't want to make it more expensive, but there has got to be some money that goes into it without the rural America having to beg for everything.

Well, I have another question for the Chair, and I ask it of the leadership. What happened to democracy? We were promised an open process. And there was a model for this. It was President Reagan and Dan Rostenkowski, 4 months of actual…

I think we need, those of us who represent rural America, some concrete build-out rules that can give us concrete confidence that somehow, some way, the system is going to serve rural America.

I have a question for my colleagues: What do you have against students? This tax bill means that if an employer provides tuition assistance, the student is going to have to pay income tax on that. Students who borrow money for school have…

I would be glad to. Just by way of introduction, I thank the ranking member for his leadership. As the gentleman said, the biggest challenge we face in this country--and it is not a Democrat or Republican issue--is that wages have been…

the real issue here is, frankly, my skepticism that the investments that will be required for 5G will be made in rural areas.

I mean, are we entitled to the same level of services in urban areas or not? That is the question.

If every dollar spent on needless regulation is a dollar that can't be spent on rural America.

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We've left too many veterans broken and in pain. When we needed these brave men and women to return to battle, it was very easy just to prescribe opioids for pain management.

Overprescribing opioid medications for chronic pain opens the door to addiction, overdose, suicide risk, and that devastates families and communities.

It's hitting sons and daughters and mothers, fathers, friends, coworkers. It is impacting our veterans, our servicemembers.

Every state and every community in the country has been hit with the opioid epidemic. None of us can say we've escaped it.

We've left too many veterans broken and in pain.