We are also implementing the Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act to ensure that the rates for pris...
Thank you for providing full funding for the FCC in your fiscal year 2024 bill.
Congress set aside funding for it but those funds are not sufficient to fully fund reimbursement.
We have come too far to turn back. Keeping this program funded needs to be a priority.
I want to emphasize how much we do need that authority back.
We need an additional $3.08 billion to fully take that equipment out securely.
I signed a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Commerce because they have a lot of programs like BEAD.
I think we have got to make sure that we figure out a way to get broadband to everyone in this country.
I think those numbers are probably tremendously incomplete.
We can't do this on our own. We have got to find like-minded nations and then work with others.
I have to hand that off to the Department of Justice, and I am sure they have got lots of other priorities.
I want to acknowledge that the Emergency Connectivity Fund, championed by Chairman Van Hollen, has also been instrumenta...
The covered list is a list of equipment that our Nation's National Security authorities have found to be insecure.
Shouldn't the VA be much more aggressive in advocating for those statutes?
We have decided that this equipment is insecure.
We have also been exploring whether or not when we give you an authorization to participate in our economy, what kind of...
Our authority to grant licenses expired on March 9, 2023.
