David Scott

Thank you for your leadership in making the necessary strides and providing the technology of the future, while safeguarding taxpayer dollars.

That is why Farm Bureau supports the, bipartisan, H.R. 3162, the Broadband Data Improvement Act, that would improve the accuracy of broadband coverage maps and better direct Federal funds for broadband built-out.

Current and future generations of rural Americans will be left behind without adequate broadband service.

We still have members who have to travel to the nearest fast food restaurant in order to use a hotspot so their children can finish their homework.

Broadband connectivity opens up a range of possibilities for online continuing education and degree completion.

It is not just rural Americans who suffer from this divide, though.

In my home State of Georgia, we've lost seven rural hospitals since 2010, which is third most in the nation.

It is very important that rural America weigh in on these policy changes at the FCC.

Rural broadband is a prime example of how government investments, coupled with private innovation, can create a ripple of success.

This is an extraordinarily important and very timely and very necessary hearing, and this issue is an important one.

I would suggest that it connects the rest of the world to the benefits of rural America.

I know that all of us on this Subcommittee agree, both Democrats and Republicans, that it is essential that rural broadband is an integral part of any infrastructure package.

Yes. And LIBOR will be gone, am I right, are my calculations right, within the next year or so?

The President can't fire you. And we in Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, got your back.

Disclosure is valuable for its ability to stimulate ingenuity and strategic thinking by businesses, which can improve sustainability, performance, increase a company's competitiveness in a resource-constrained economy, and create…

I think it is so important to have these disclosures.

We as lawmakers should be working to create an atmosphere that helps promote more capital formation, strengthen job creation, and increase economic growth, not harm it.

It is important for this nation and the economy of the world that the Federal Reserve remain strongly independent.

We commend Chairman Scott for his leadership during the 115th Congress in supporting the 'Protection of Source Code Act'.

Everyone in this room knows that financial instruments do not operate in a vacuum.

Thank you for joining us today as we look at Brexit and other international developments.

We will have one resolve, and that is to make sure what is happening with Brexit... does not put our United States financial industry in a weakened position.

It is most important that when we leave this hearing today, we will have one resolve.

Some of the most extreme parts of their suggested policies are: Administrative fees charged to clearinghouses in other countries in exchange for oversight by the EU.

This hearing is an important one, and a timely one, as the 27 members of the EU brace for the UK's exit from the Union, or 'Brexit' and the UK approaches a leadership change.