Cory Gardner

It just seems like that opt-out never happens, the regulations pile on, and then you end up with higher costs and less service in many areas.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you to the witnesses for being here today.

So if we're in the State of Colorado, for example, all the data and what the State committee felt was important, and public safety, what they felt important, was submitted to the vendors.

And I think one of the concerns that we have, of course, in Colorado is the geography and the limitations that geography can pose to coverage and the challenges it can pose to that coverage.

Obviously, the potential to revolutionize public safety communications is extremely important.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 8:14 p.m., adjourned until Friday, June 10, 2016, at 8:15 a.m…

And when we are asking them to take a tough line, perhaps on something like the South China Sea, they see our lack of consequences in other circumstances...

We have agreements on radioisotopes and other things that are dual-use. Why can we not do it with cyber?

But if we had some kind of an agreement amongst nations of what a cyber weapon is and defining they are dual-use but when used a certain way as a weapon, would that not help?

I think that the path we are on is exactly the right path to raise awareness about these issues and what the threats are.

So you do not anticipate any kind of like a weapons of mass destruction type ban when it comes to cyber because you are concerned that we cannot define what a cyber weapon is.

It is sort of a Good Samaritan approach.

We need to be ready and willing and continue to use those.

And so when we see penetration by Russia or Iran into critical infrastructure of the United States, whether that is an actual attack or whether that is preparing the battlefield, as it was characterized at one point, is that a violation of…

Do you believe that Russia is still attempting to penetrate U.S. critical infrastructure?

The cyber agreement that Senator Cardin spoke of earlier--how involved was the State Department in drafting that?

And so does that activity violate their commitment to the United Nations?

The President signed a couple of executive orders, one right after the North Korea Sony attacks that were broad sanctions.

The norms of conduct that we are trying to promote and get more and more countries to sign up for and accept create an environment where there are rules of the road.

I want to thank Ranking Member Cardin who, of course, also serves as the ranking member of the full committee, for his cooperation as we continue our important work together to address the important issues within this subcommittee's…

I just want to know whether or not you were a part of any discussions.

Was the State Department cyber office involved?

Both before and after the nuclear agreement.

The global and open Internet as we know it will cease to exist.

Instead of allowing the funding to go to States with growing senior populations, the hold-harmless funding formula in the current reauthorization continues the disproportionate trend by preventing funding in States with lower senior…