Brian Schatz

ISDS gives foreign investors final say over laws and regulations meant to improve and protect the lives of Americans.

The absence of reciprocal standards creates a competitive advantage for the country with the lower standards.

I was extremely disappointed. The commitments in TPP were basically just strongly worded suggestions with very few requirements.

Do you intend to uphold the 2011 Scientific Integrity Policy?

I look forward to consulting with you on it.

I would like your thoughts on Housing First, and I would like your assurance that you are certainly going to look at everything with new eyes, but that you appreciate the basic premise, which is that unless you put a roof over somebody's…

I need to know that you are going to advocate for the HUD budget, and for me, that is a threshold question that you are not going to--

We have a serious safety crisis on our roads.

That is the first time the Senate has ever ended with that one. ____________________

I want to commend Senator Whitehouse for his 150th climate speech. It takes a lot of passion, a lot of research, and a lot of focus to be willing to stay on one topic in the Senate for that many consecutive speeches. There are a lot of…

What are the tough, thorny, short-term public policy and ethical challenges that we're facing right now?

So, long as it's not a government contract, where you're working with a subcontractor, which says, 'Our algorithm is proprietary. You're not allowed to--we just spit out our recommendation. That's what you pay us for.'

If we're talking about 900 million individual records that are breached, it's not any longer about notification, it's about preventing the breach.

I think there's a tremendous potential for disparate impact.

I can't imagine that there is an issue larger than one that is potentially impacting 10 million Americans and their ability to, basically, participate in the economy.

I absolutely support the principle that people shouldn't be ripped off by being forced to rent a device.

We ought to think through whether or not what we're saying is constructive and leads us to strengthen the institution of the FCC.

The Commerce Committee...has been a bastion of bipartisanship, but not recently.

I strongly believe that we don't need to wait for Pearl Harbors and data out--you know, dead bodies before we decide in anticipation to regulate something, right?

If you ask a person whether they think that there should be one standard, the assumption of the respondent in the poll is that it would be one high standard----not one high standard and one low standard.

It seems to me that one of the basic questions is, what is it that makes an ISP different from another Internet company?

One of the things I look at FirstNet is if it's good for the city cop, it's got to be good for the rural cop, firemen, and EMT.

We made an important commitment to public safety.

There is really no reason that a 16-year-old with a smartphone should have more technology at their fingertips than our first responders.

FirstNet will provide first responders mission-critical data use for the first time.