Bill Nelson

Thank you, Chairman Pai, for the commitment to the Chairman of getting broadband done for the underserved areas.

You've been busy proposing to eliminate rules to make quality educational content for kids readily available on free over-the-air television.

A bipartisan majority of the United States Senate has decisively repudiated that action through a congressional resolution of disapproval led by Senator Markey.

You've been busy paving the way for unprecedented broadcast consolidation.

the Senator is basing that on First Amendment rights. There are many limits on our First Amendment rights of speech. You cannot say ``fire'' in a crowded theater. Why in the world would you assert First Amendment rights to publish…

Legislation that we are putting together is to add the search for life's origin, evolution, distribution, and the future of the universe.

It is going to be a real challenge for us to protect human life, going all the way to Mars.

I agree that we should do as much science as possible in conjunction in our human exploration programs, but I am concerned about robbing other science programs to pay for it.

I was necessarily absent for the July 30, 2018, vote on Executive Calendar No. 1006, the motion to invoke cloture, on Britt Grant, of Georgia, to be U.S. circuit judge for the Eleventh Circuit. I would have voted no. ____________________

I think it may, indeed, be a Federal law that every visitor and particularly every child that comes to Washington must go to the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum.

to accommodate the Senator from Utah, I will not make my remarks first, but just by way of introduction to say that tonight at midnight American national security is going to be irreversibly weakened by the actions of President Trump and…

We need to work together to ensure that NASA has the resources it needs to succeed.

30 percent of the NASA budget is here, and they are operating 60 missions on 80 spacecraft.

Each day, around the world, billions of dollars in digital commerce is conducted online.

I plead for the administration to reverse its decision.

If this settlement is allowed to go through, we will see a fundamental shift in American safety and security.

if we didn't have enough to worry about, as the Presiding Officer and this Senator have to worry about cyber security in our capacity on the Armed Services Committee; if we didn't have enough to worry about, with all that is happening…

Let me be blunt about this: Somebody could come into this building--and sit in this hearing room--and have a gun, and we wouldn't know about it.

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Plastic Guns

I second the comments of the Chairman about the Gulf Coast train service that was suspended after Hurricane Katrina.

I'm pleased that the Committee is going to hear from the satellite industry, which is essential for the Nation's communication networks.

We need to maintain a balanced spectrum policy to support various types of wireless technologies as the engine of innovation.

may I insert in the record a number of letters raising concerns on infrastructure, particularly from municipalities

Congress has already made an important 'down payment' with the MOBILE NOW Act, bipartisan legislation championed by Chairman Thune and Ranking Member Nelson.

Ranking Member Nelson, and Members of the Committee, my name is Dean Brenner, and I'm here today on behalf of Qualcomm.