"As someone who--from Tift County, we are very fortunate to have a quality medical community there."
"The access to immediately know where that patient needs to go in those situations it truly is the difference in life and death."
"We need our rural communities to have a seat at the table as we look at the budget."
"Doctor, you have a relationship with Tift Regional Hospital where my father is a physician. I know I have talked with him many times in the past, him as an orthopedic surgeon and trauma surgeon. Just ..."
"I would add to the fact that the machinery today is much more complicated than it was in the past, and if you have a problem, my tractor's instruction manual is literally on my iPhone. But if I don't ..."
"It is extremely important to us and to the industries that try to operate in areas like those that I live in with my family."
"It takes money. It takes priority of funding."
"For more than 24 million Americans who live in rural communities, as I do, that do not have broadband Internet access and lack the infrastructure for reliable and affordable connection, having reliabl..."
"I want to comment on Mr. Hurst's answer to Mrs. Hartzler's question. The industry has the ability to provide shape file mapping today to the FCC, and if the FCC would begin to use that and they could ..."
"We can do a better job, and we have to do a better job, because we are losing our population in rural America."
"As a former Commissioner and Chairman of the CFTC, having access to that kind of technology would be tremendous in a way that will better the markets, further the public interest."