Mark Pryor

Designing one of these is immensely complicated, possibly the most complicated of these type of auctions ever designed by the FCC.

We have urged the FCC to be much more flexible in these sharing arrangements.

We will hold an auction that fulfills our statutory objectives and Congressional priorities.

If there is to be a limit, we think it has to be applied neutrally and fairly to all participants.

The Congress rightly left many practical and technical decisions to the Federal Communications Commission, as the expert agency.

The legislation that we are all working under here says the FCC is to make all reasonable efforts to protect TV stations in the repacking process.

Well, again, we don't know exactly what the budget deal is they are contemplating, but certainly in this budget environment that we are in, there are a lot of people looking for revenue.

The FCC must balance competing interests with the need to raise enough money to cover the incentive payments.

An open and unrestricted auction will raise the most revenue at auction while producing a multiplicity of winners.

We need multiple winners for sure in the auction.

I want to thank everyone for being here. I especially want to thank our witnesses.

Nothing is more important to attracting broadcasters than to give them some idea of how much money they are going to get paid if they give up their spectrum.

[h]istory will show that the way the FCC structured the auction basically helped the two big wireless companies to the detriment of competition in this country.

It would be extremely difficult for our members to build the 4G LTE network and stay competitive without access to the spectrum.

I want to echo at least some of the sentiment that my distinguished colleague from Tennessee just mentioned--that I am disappointed in the use of the nuclear option. I opposed that. I think it could do permanent damage to this institution…

this is good for our economy, good for Alaska, and good for Homeland Security.

I would hope that you could look into this.

I am kind of curious about 7 years because typically 5 years is how we do something like this.

I like this idea of this National Network of Manufacturing Innovation Centers. I think it is important.

Let me ask you, if I can, Ms. Hulit, about your announcement today.

Thank you again, Senator, for your service, as always, and this opportunity.

Senator Pryor has really encouraged us to take a good hard look at that

I have a couple of them here in the room with me right now. But one thing I've noticed is that when you hire a veteran, they want to hire other veterans.

I rise today to talk about an important initiative that is not only important to my State of Arkansas but important to our entire Nation, and that is manufacturing. This country is an economic powerhouse, and we are certainly a…

You're focusing on a very important segment of the U.S. economy and a very important part of Arkansas' economy.