Brian Schatz

This is a bipartisan issue. It's important to me for obvious reasons.

How worried are you about that?

Is that prohibitively expensive, or do you think you can get----

I think one of the big differences is that they want coverage over water in addition to land.

The goal with this national state-of-the-art first responders network recognizes the need to have a national approach to addressing emergencies, but national is not just the continental United States.

Most importantly, emergency personnel will not be competing with commercial users for bandwidth.

Today, we are closer than ever to making that solution a reality.

We also knew that these problems could be solved with a nationwide, interoperable public safety communication network.

In 2012, when Congress created FirstNet, we made an important commitment to public safety.

I have no questions for you except to say thank you for your public service and your patience.

I am really worried that to the extent that an infrastructure package is predicated on that, that it is not really an infrastructure package.

It is not trivial that the administration is at least recognizing we have a revenue shortfall and that it is going to get worse.

I think it is reasonable to complete the pilot programs and to assess out what is palatable, what makes the most sense as policy.

Excuse me. My time has expired. I appreciate it. Thank you.

We think that this data is absolutely insufficient to form our policies around.

We actually don't know the scope of this problem. We don't know in terms of raw numbers or by sector necessarily in which sectors this is the biggest problem.

It's not often that we have unanimity on this Committee, but you certainly have it here in terms of our commitment to solve this problem.

Tuberculosis is the leading global infectious killer. It takes the lives of 1.8 million people annually around the world.

I am calling for a STOP Pain Initiative to be led by the NIH.

Energy assurance at our Air Force bases in the United States supports the service's ability to execute operations.

I just want to know if there is anything either on the authorizing side... that we can do to help you to expand telehealth and telemedicine.

I want to know that this is not a reflecting sort of view of the political winds here in terms of privatizing services.

I am happy to see this investment into the program, especially given the current deficiencies.

It makes me extremely nervous that you say you can absorb these costs.

The VA also needs to invest even more in telehealth and remote patient monitoring.