Anna Eshoo

I see first-hand the impact that the next generation of mobile health applications and devices are having on healthcare accessibility and improvements to care.

The FDA's primary goal is to ensure patient safety and I believe they are working diligently on final guidance for regulation of mobile health applications.

We have to be careful not to lock ourselves into a misguided pathway without a more complete picture of what these new technologies are capable of.

I want to thank all of you for the roles that you have played in it. They have been significant and they are very important.

I believe transparent governance is paramount and critical to ensure America's first responders have an efficient and effective interoperable network.

First, consistent with statute, FirstNet must ensure equipment used on the network is built to open, non-proprietary, commercially available standards.

Good governance is a linchpin of the public safety network that would determine success or failure.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to each of the witnesses. You have been absolutely terrific, and I thank you for what you are doing.

There were women involved in this, women Members of Congress, to produce this legislation, namely Kay Bailey Hutchinson in the Senate.

What steps is FirstNet considering to ensure that security is built into the network from day one?

The sooner you get these issues to us, the specifics of them, that we can start to work on them because the subcommittee wants all of this to work just the way you do.

FirstNet is here to stay and it is part of our responsibility to ensure it is efficient and well implemented.

It seems as if it is a very old Congress that doesn't have any women and women involved in it.

What steps is FirstNet taking to achieve economies of scale in device costs?

Have you considered integrating adjacent spectrum bands used by commercial wireless providers into 4G LTE-based public safety devices as a way to drive down cost?

Now, more than 11 years after our Nation was attacked, it is the First Responder Network Authority, or FirstNet, who has been tasked with the build-out and maintenance of a network that will transform the way our first responders…

To ensure that FirstNet remains on track, leverages the expertise of the communications sector, and does not repeat the mistakes that have plagued public safety communications for decades, I expect this will be the first of many oversight…

It is my understanding while I have you, Mr. Forgety, that NENA has worked closely with the four largest wireless carriers to reach a voluntary agreement to make text to 9-1-1 service available.

Thank you to each one of you for what you are doing and for being instructive to us today.

Thank you for your leadership as the Chair of the NextGen 9-1-1 Caucus. It has been very effective and helpful.

I thank our ranking member, Mr. Pallone, for his leadership on the committee and for yielding time to me. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to support the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act. This is legislation that I wrote…

But don't try. You need to. You just need to do it.

Yes, I mean the public needs to know, and in a very clear way, how they can track the progress of this.

What is the answer, sequester? I think that, number one, the President of the United States, with all due respect to the Chairman, is not the purchasing agent for this program.

But let us keep things in context. I mean it is kind of like down boy.