Thank you all for being here. We appreciate your willingness to serve.

If confirmed, I will seek to implement long-term reforms for the regulation, funding, delivery, and maintenance of transportation infrastructure projects.

We rely heavily on the interstate system, all the Federal highways and both state and local roads, too, getting our goods to the marketplace, agricultural commodities.

I think the idea, and then we've been happy to see, AT&T has said that they will be able to get public safety users on their network as priority users as soon as the end of this year.

The demand for spectrum... continues to grow with the pace of innovation among both private sector and Federal users.

I appreciate the budget's attention to the need to repeal and replace the collapsing Affordable Care Act.

The Spectrum Pipeline Act modified the Spectrum Relocation Fund... to help Federal agencies fund key R&D activities which could lead to freeing up more spectrum in the future.

We would love to give you more tools to create the kind of accountability we need, and I think our legislation accomplishes that.

As you know, FirstNet is an independent authority within NTIA tasked with the creation and operation of a Nationwide Interoperable Public Safety Broadband Network.

This has got to be resolved, Mr. Chairman.

We need the reforms.

I think this--you know, I like what you are trying to do at the VA.

But we want the veterans out there who right now might be seeing a Choice Program which is being improved...

Gentlemen, I just want to talk a little bit about the difference between the proposed CARE plan and Choice as it is today.

Drive 170 miles if you want your glasses.

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How about putting it in the law?