Doris Matsui: “I think that it is important for us to support this type of legislation because at least it gives people an opportunity…”

I rise in support of H.R. 5200, the Emergency Reporting Act, and I urge my colleagues to support it. Emergencies can happen anywhere at any time, and in those moments every second counts. When a family calls 911, they should never be met…

Allowing this authority to lapse was a failure. To add insult to injury, it was a completely avoidable failure.

The FCC should be protecting those voices, not giving the nation’s largest station owners and the Trump Administration more power over them.

The stakes are simply too high.