I strongly support preserving unlicensed spectrum for American innovators, and an auction I believe will put American innovators and American innovation at a competitive disadvantage.

I rise for the fourth time this year to call for transparency in our political system. I maintain the view shared by the overwhelming majority of the American people that transparency in the use of our tax dollars is absolutely critical…

I joined with the full committee's ranking member, Mr. Waxman, to offer our preferred path.

I thank the chairman. I rise once again in strong opposition to Representative Cole's amendment to block transparency and disclosure for taxpayers. That's what this issue is about. It is with continuing curiosity that when I listened to…

Be careful what you ask for, or wish for.

I think each one of you, whether I agree or disagree with some parts of what you said, really have offered excellent testimony today and are helping us move forward with this.

Although many details of the bill we put forward differ from the Republican draft, Democrats on the committee hope we can develop one legislative vehicle that takes the best ideas from both proposals.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available in this Act…

Reallocation is the best way to ensure that public safety has the leverage to incentivize the public-private partnerships and network-sharing arrangements that are essential through constructing a nationwide broadband network.

I remain optimistic that we can produce a bipartisan bill.

The public safety community has indicated its strong support for the robust governance approach in the Senate bill and in the Democratic draft.

I think we can draw from the work that you are doing but I think that the Congress really either needs to update some of the laws that are on the books or do something that is overarching that is going to protect innovation but also speak…