Jessica Rosenworcel

I want to emphasize how much we do need that authority back.

I could offer the services of my office and my whole agency to assist you because I want to make clear that when our commercial wireless economy grows, technology expands, and the U.S. does better.

We need to update it from time to time and reaching out to them regularly as we do has been useful.

The covered list is a list of equipment that our Nation's National Security authorities have found to be insecure.

I strongly support identifying a way to fund the Affordable Connectivity Program into the future to help more families get and stay connected to the high-speed Internet they need to participate in modern life.

I want to acknowledge that the Emergency Connectivity Fund, championed by Chairman Van Hollen, has also been instrumental in closing the digital divide.

Thank you for providing full funding for the FCC in your fiscal year 2024 bill.

We have come too far to turn back. Keeping this program funded needs to be a priority.

We are also implementing the Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act to ensure that the rates for prison pay phone calls are truly just and reasonable.

We can't do this on our own. We have got to find like-minded nations and then work with others.

If I had a magic wand, I would make it simpler.

I suspect the consent of the Department of Justice, and that might prove more challenging in identifying the resources.

Keeping these other agencies reporting to us about where their grants are going is a really important part.

We have decided that this equipment is insecure.

I could offer the services of my office and my whole agency to assist you.

We have also been exploring whether or not when we give you an authorization to participate in our economy, what kind of national security questions we should ask at the outset.

I think going forward it should get more attention.

We need an additional $3.08 billion to fully take that equipment out securely.

I want to emphasize how much we do need that authority back.

I think that if we choose to take this equipment out of our networks and fully fund its replacement costs, we have to go tell everyone around the world that we chose to do that.

We are all going to share information and data.

Our authority to grant licenses expired on March 9, 2023.

The covered list is a list of equipment that our Nation's National Security authorities have found to be insecure.

We are going to the World Radio Conference. That is a conference where global spectrum authorities gather every 4 years to discuss their plans for the wireless future.

I strongly support identifying a way to fund the Affordable Connectivity Program into the future to help more families get and stay connected to the high-speed Internet they need to participate in modern life.