How worried are you about that?

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

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

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.

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

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

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 thank the Senator from Washington for her leadership on tech and technology issues and, in particular, on net neutrality. I would like to amend one thing she said. She said that we got about 5 million comments in favor of net neutrality…

I ask unanimous consent that two fellows from my office, Micaela Klein and Sunmin Kim, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of the calendar year. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

this is the beginning, not the end. Today, we claim an important victory because of thousands of people across the country. There are not enough Senators who support this Republican healthcare plan, so there will not be a vote this week…

you might think that for the last 7 years, the major complaint people had about the Affordable Care Act was that it hurt rich people, because they seem to be the only people who stand to gain with this Republican Senate healthcare plan…

there are two things Americans need to know about this Republican healthcare plan. The first is that it is going to make insurance more expensive, and the second is that it is going to make it harder to get healthcare in the first place…

the Senate recently passed the Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act. This legislation is intended to improve the VA by strengthening the process of holding nonperforming VA employees accountable…

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

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

Your openness today will help us know how to best help you.

Thank you for holding this hearing to review the VA's fiscal year 2018 budget request and the 2019 advanced appropriation request.

I support these efforts, but I want to hear from you today how we can help you avoid situations where you don't have the funds needed to provide the care veterans expect.