We are just hurting our own country and our economy.

This one-time effort developed during the early days of the pandemic was designed to assist students and library patrons with access to connections and devices.

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.

Tragedies like this show us just how essential access to broadband is in our modern life. It is not a luxury; it is a necessity.

I agree with you. We need to get this done in the coming weeks because it is hurting all of us.

We are hoping that that might be included as part of an effort to extend the--your authority when it comes to--you know, when it comes to the sales, leasing of the spectrum.

Before the pandemic struck, I had introduced legislation to close what we call the 'homework gap', because students without access to broadband were put at a big disadvantage.

I would like to help you on both counts there, and maybe we can work with your team.

I think the FCC has made dramatic strides in improving the system by creating that feedback loop.

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.

Many of us have been very active in providing funds to demine that area and all the reports we are getting from people on the ground who are involved in the demining effort is that the blockade is having a significant harmful impact.

I hope the international community is watching because when President Aliyev is tried for crimes against humanity, as I think he should be, the burden of proof will be very high.

Talk is worthless when one participant in those talks is carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing.

I do not understand when we come together and we say never again, never again, and here we are before our plain eyes seeing history unfold.

We must stand up for peace, security, and the defense of human rights, which is in stark contrast to Russia.

It was undermining confidence in the peace process, and I do not see anything that has changed from that day to this.

I have repeatedly expressed my deep opposition about waiving Section 907 of the Freedom Support Act.

It was undermining confidence in the peace process, and I do not see anything that has changed from that day to this.