Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today, and for providing full funding for the FCC in your fiscal year 2024 bill.
Keeping these other agencies reporting to us about where their grants are going is a really important part.
I want to emphasize how much we do need that authority back.
What you have to be mindful of, is some State laws prevent some of those municipal deployments.
I strongly support identifying a way to fund the Affordable Connectivity Program into the future to help more families get and stay connecte...
I want to acknowledge that the Emergency Connectivity Fund, championed by Chairman Van Hollen, has also been instrumental in closing the dig...
I just want to be able to hold them to account.
I look forward to that day coming sooner rather than later.
Absolutely.
With the pandemic behind us, it has become clear that broadband is no longer just nice to have, it is need to have for everyone everywhere.
We need to go to the World Radio Conference this year with full spectrum authority. We need to lead at that conference and lead the world on...