this hearing might evoke a sense of deja vu. Not too long ago, we debated a nearly identical ambush election rule proposed by the National Labor Relations Board that would stifle employers' free speech and cripple workers' free choice.

The fundamental problem with the President's labor agenda is this: it has done very little to help put our labor force back to work.

The ambush election proposal gives employers only seven days to find legal counsel and appear before an NLRB regional officer at a pre-election hearing.

Unfortunately, as is so often the case, Senate Democrats refused to defend our struggling workforce.

One essential element for competition in the wireless industry is, of course, spectrum.

Number portability is essential to competition, as we all know, in the wireless industry.

the FCC must do more about concentration in the wireless market, which qualifies as highly concentrated still today under DOJ guidelines.

consumers are increasingly using their mobile subscriptions to access competing communication services.

giving people the tools that they want to use, not necessarily saying, 'Here, you have to take this application...'

I believe that the Spectrum Act was very clear in making sure that the auctions that are going to be conducted by the FCC catalyze systemic competition and not privilege one competitor or advantage one competitor's business plan over…

That auction is going to be, I think, very important to ensuring that, you know, there is a leveling of the playing field.

I think that the takeaways today are that while the industry is competitive and benefiting consumers... there are still challenges.

Throughout our consideration of all these issues, we must keep our focus on protecting competition and not protecting competitors.

I introduced this bill with Senators Mikulski, Blumenthal, and Hirono, and the bill calls on the wireless carriers and manufacturers to offer a technical function to their consumers that would wipe their data and render the device useless…

The FCC and Congress also must act to give people more control over these tools we use to stay connected.

the whole idea here is to allow individual private users to actually protect their own data.

Privacy and security are very important as mobile devices become more and more embedded in our everyday lives.

the problem is just mounting, and the bill is supported by the Major Cities Police Chiefs as well as a number of Attorneys General from across the country