Mark Pryor

Senator Pryor, you mentioned this in your opening statement.

Does that help solve the accuracy problem indoors and outdoors or not?

But, as it happens, I think most consumers would be surprised to know that if you are calling from a wireless phone, the 911 system may not be able to locate exactly where that person in need is.

There is no question that a call to 911 may be the most important call that you will ever make.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 12:21 a.m., adjourned until Friday, December 20, 2013, at 9 a.m…

There will be six rollcall votes at approximately 10:15 a.m. tomorrow. ____________________

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.

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

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

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

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

We need multiple winners for sure in the auction.

[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.

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

The FCC must meet its statutory duty to make 'all reasonable efforts' to protect remaining TV stations' coverage areas.

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.

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

Thank you. And, again, I want to thank all the panelists for being here.

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

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

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

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.

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