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.

I think we're really poised to lead.

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

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

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...

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.

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

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

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

Oh, this is within the bands that are allocated.

20 is the number of bomb threats that were called into Jewish institutions in our communities across the country yesterday--in just 1 day. In Alabama, Delaware, Michigan, Maryland, Virginia, and in my home State of Hawaii, in my Temple…

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Anti-Semitism

Through the Chair, I would just like to ask the Senator a question. It strikes me that Governor McCall, President Nixon, I am thinking of Governor Schwarzenegger, I am thinking of Susan Collins, although I am almost sheepish to continue to…

I want to make an observation that there are a couple of kinds of willful blindness. One is willful blindness about climate change in the first place, a desire not to hear the truth, a desire to put blinders on when it comes to these…

I think it is important to understand what just happened today that makes this debate on Scott Pruitt to lead the EPA so critically important. We call ourselves the world's greatest deliberative body, and that is actually a well-earned…

Well, I thank the Senator for the question. This is what is happening today. It would be enough if we were in the process of debating and confirming a climate-denier to the EPA. It would be enough that this person is a plaintiff in 17…

in late October, people who lived in a place called Donora shrugged off the thick, yellow smog that had covered their small town. It was 1948. It wasn't unusual to see a smog blanket the town, thanks to the zinc plant and the steel mill…

I thank the Senator from Rhode Island for that question. The Senator is right that he has been delaying because he wants to be confirmed as the EPA Administrator before these emails become public. There is no other reason that I can think…

I thank the Presiding Officer. I don't know if it is disqualifying. I would say it is strange, in the extreme, to have the chief law enforcement officer of a State and the head of the Republican Attorneys General Association not comply…

Well, I think the Senator is right. You know, it is fair to look at his record. It is also fair to look at his words. In 2016-- so this is not 10 years ago; this is less than a year ago--he said: Legislation should not be ``we like clean…

I thank the Senator for the question. I just want to ask the Presiding Officer what the parliamentary situation is; has my 60 minutes expired? The PRESIDING OFFICER. It has not.

Well, I thank the Senator for that question. It is a really important one because essentially what Scott Pruitt is saying is: Hey, let's let the States handle this. But if you are to take him at his word, I think it is not unreasonable to…

But Mr. Pruitt did more than close Oklahoma's Environmental Protection Unit. He also started a new unit solely dedicated to suing the EPA. He closed the Environmental Protection Unit and set up a unit to sue the EPA. That is all they do…