Brian Schatz

The Senate should have confirmed her to a term last year, and I'm counting on everyone to honor their original commitment.

Oh, this is within the bands that are allocated.

Is one of our unique challenges the spectrum currently allocated, I think, appropriately, to national security and other needs?

The U.S. has been a global leader in the development of mobile technology.

If you need disagreement, I think I can provide it for you.

So it's really critical that we do the same here in the U.S.

We all want faster Internet service and better wireless service coverage that will result from the current incentive auction.

Spectrum is the invisible infrastructure that has become the on-ramp to access the Internet.

Isn't there a way to balance these concerns and make sure that member companies can deploy quickly after the auction while also protecting our constituents' access to local news?

I am appalled that the White House withdrew all pending nominations for Federal commissions. That is an unnecessarily provocative act.

The value that that spectrum delivers to the economy is hard to overstate.

We believe currently with the information we have that both the time and the financial resources are going to be inadequate.

But it is a race, and it will be important that we make the right policy decisions here.

I want to thank the Committee leadership, Senators Moran and Schatz, as well as their co-sponsors...

I hope that the White House will re-nominate her and the Senate will keep its commitment to confirm her as we should have done a year ago.

Spectrum policy has been a priority for this Congress and this committee.

I think we're really poised to lead.

At some point the Fed is going to have to recognize that climate change is real, and it is not merely an ecological issue or political issue but an economic one.

Undermining Dodd-Frank is not, in my view, the correct course of action.

Climate change events are taking a toll on our economy, and they are expected to become more and more intense going forward.

On Friday at 8 p.m., President Trump signed an Executive Order banning refugees and anyone from seven Muslim majority countries from entering the United States.

We've sent a message to the world which is very strong, that the welcome mat is being pulled away.

We're going to need your leadership in this space.

America's strategy for years has been to attract the best and the brightest, and we are a nation that doesn't rely upon old buildings and thousands of years of history to define ourselves.

Government can serve as either an enabler or an inhibitor to achieving the IoT's promise.