Whether you make spending cuts, whether you make revenue increases, people can have a healthy disagreement on that front.

I give you and the Biden Administration, the FDIC, and others, high marks for the way you responded quickly and decisively to the Silicon Valley Bank default.

Getting people physically connected to the Internet won't do them any good if they cannot afford to pay the bill for services.

Thanks to the passage of the Infrastructure Modernization Bill, we are well on our way to connecting them.

the President's budget reduces the deficit over the next 10 years by $3 trillion relative to if we did nothing.

I know President Biden has called upon Congress to change the law so that we can hold executives accountable.

this would obviously be a huge blow to our effort to really connect people, because physical connection is important, but if you can't afford it, it doesn't do you much good.

there is a significant crackdown on press freedom in India. It is the world's largest democracy, but this is very, very troubling.

I mean those are the options. Can you talk a little bit about what's going to happen to homeowners in coastal communities?

This meeting of the Senate Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government will come to order.

The BEAD Program and other Internet connectivity programs would be flying blind if it were not for the FCC's broadband mapping program.

I say, amen, to everything you said, both in terms of making sure that those companies that have already paid for their spectrum should get it.

American consumers are sort of looking at the situation here where those who were clearly responsible for the failure in their banks are running away with major profits.

I really hope, Madam Secretary, that we won't do that.

I think we need to do more than chipping away.

I am hoping that you would agree that all economists would agree that it is a bad idea to default on our debt.

Well, thank you. We hope we can work with you to get ahead of them as much as possible.

It is vital that we re-establish aggressive pollution reduction targets, and dates.