It is our responsibility to ensure that the process by which we allocate the lifeblood of wireless information delivery, spectrum, promotes the needs of broadband carriers while simultaneously recognizing the value of this spectrum to the…

this is an extremely important issue, and as the ranking member and the chairman both said, we need to get this to the point where the Senate can pass it and we get it to the President's desk.

If you aren't using the 24 megahertz properly or efficiently, why would we give you 10 more?

I will defend what this subcommittee is doing is deemed diligent, asking the tough questions and trying to find the right answers to solve this problem.

It will create jobs in every State it goes through, including Nebraska, good, high paying union jobs.

The oil sands are an important product for our independence from OPEC oil, it is a major source of fuel for us.

Simply stated, this Act is to put a time date on the administration to accomplish its review and issue their order.

I am disturbed or concerned that some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle here seems to want to just ask non-related questions to the apparent dysfunction of this Commission.

I think we have now found the most secretive agency or Commission on Capitol Hill.

The EPA has decided to propose and finalize greenhouse gas regulations for power plants and refineries.

While numerous signs of democratic progress have been seen in recent years, civil strife has reached an unfathomable high in some areas.

It is against the law in the United States to provide military assistance to countries who use child soldiers.

The intense human tragedy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to weigh heavily upon all of us.

The United States is constantly called upon to clean up messes throughout the world.

That perhaps is certainly an appropriate response for those areas that are under our direct influence, such as military assistance, direct military assistance and training. But in terms of a robust diplomatic push at the highest levels…

Thank you, Chairman Smith, for convening this very important hearing, and I think it is important to note that it is especially poignant that today is International Women's Day.

I think it's important for the United States to belong to multi-lateral institutions.

But if we had time to do that, and we did not have time to answer the questions that are in the minds and the hearts of these American families, who have opened their homes to these Haitian orphans, to me, that's just bad process.