We just got the Rural Call Quality and Reliability Act passed, something I worked on with Chairman Thune as well as Senator Tester.

I was just in Shenandoah Valley last week with Commissioner Carr and Shentel, which is a small carrier--larger carrier for our purposes--saying if they can decrease their cost of deployment to comply with Federal rules and regulations they…

Thank you very much, Chairman, and thank you to Senator Peters, as well, for this important hearing.

If we just had done one point less of a tax reduction, it would have been a $100 billion as part of the tax bill.

And how could that be helpful at all in rural areas? I can tell you we don't have that coverage in the rural parts.

I think Tester said it all down there.

This bill simply does a similar thing in terms of calling those people out and making sure that we can find them if we need to to ask the questions and get the calls completed.

It's nice when occasionally common sense makes its way into law.

Twenty-five percent of all U.S. Nobel Laureates were foreign born.

I would prefer just to pass the Dream Act, get this done, and then we would not have the economic impact.

the Administration's decision to end DACA has created tremendous uncertainty for dreamers.

Mr. President, I rise tonight to join my colleagues in speaking to the need to immediately respond to Russian interference. I would like to thank Senator Whitehouse for bringing us together. This evening, many of my colleagues have spoken…

In order to deliver on promises that we have made to veterans in regard to accessibility and quality of care, we must ensure VA has every resource necessary to the development of this new system.

We continue to exercise one of our most important functions, oversight.

We need to exercise our oversight authority, which this Subcommittee has proven up to that task.

I want to know and praise the dedicated workers and providers who did ensure that no patients were harmed despite incompetent leadership and supply chain failures at the hospital.

I fully support Ranking Member Kuster's call for a hearing or whatever is necessary on the leadership failures in New England, Capital Region, and Desert Pacific Regions.

Mr. Speaker, the House Financial Services Committee has been working hard for consumers, local banks, credit unions, and American entrepreneurs during the 115th Congress. Today, we continue our work with H.R. 4607, the Comprehensive…