Roger Wicker

Your position is that the service is provided to the consumer and the public safety user--to them, it will be immaterial where it's coming from?

So a work in progress.

It is subject to question. Now, we're going to have order in this Committee.

How do you spell synchronicity?

Maybe we need to define it.

Are AT&T's commercial networks hardened in every respect and considered, quote, 'public safety grade?'

But, Senator Hassan, your question was how do the states hold FirstNet and AT&T to account.

Is it your position, gentlemen, that adherence to the state plan amounts to a legally binding contract?

OK. Well, Mr. Poth, having seen a draft copy, then, you, I think, responded to some of the items that Mr. Goldstein mentioned, particularly the tribal concerns.

Well, thank you very much.

Thank you very much, Dr. Darsey.

FirstNet assured members of the Subcommittee that user fees would be reasonably and affordably priced for public safety users.

There was, and still is, a clear need for a reliable communications network to support the essential work of our public safety officials.

I look forward to the attendance in just a moment or two from my good friend, and Ranking Member, Mr. Schatz.

Accelerating broadband development in rural areas is a priority for many members on both sides of the dais.

Please discuss how an update to the Commission's approach toward environmental and historic reviews may accelerate the deployment of mobile broadband.

We are doing our part to the fullest in this subcommittee, and we seek to send a strong signal to everyone else that's listening, including our colleagues.

The world is a big place, and if you don't have the presence, you're not going to deter.

They will do what they can get away with, and they target our threshold of tolerance and try to get just below what they think we'll tolerate.

I would stress to you that this SHIPS Act is a bipartisan bill unanimously endorsed by every member of the Seapower Subcommittee.

We're here to provide help to industry, we're here to provide help to the administration and to the military in actually getting this done.

Thank you very much. This Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearing on Seapower will come to order.

I too agree. This is a profoundly important hearing.

This was a scandalous, outrageous act on the part of Vladimir Putin's Russia.

I would be delighted. Mr. President, I yield to the distinguished majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. I thank the Senator. ____________________