Roger Wicker

I would just encourage this committee to continue to focus on the needs for licensed spectrum as well, too.

The administration believes, and I support, certainly, in a general sense, the idea that regulations many times, though well intended, have stifled job creation, and that we need regulatory reform.

Spectrum is the lifeblood of this connectivity, improving the lives of people around the globe.

Unlicensed spectrum offers opportunities for businesses of all sizes to innovate and continue to fuel the vast expansion of the Internet of Things.

Next Gen TV has the potential to deliver better emergency services and ultimately save lives.

Our discussion of spectrum policy today comes on the heels of this committee's approval of the MOBILE NOW Act.

Thank you very much.

Spectrum for mobile broadband is giving rural America the tools and resources it needs.

So it turns my phone----

I do not think it is within the realm of possibility to completely foreclose a counter-attack.

We haven't really sent very good signals the last few years about consequences and crossing lines.

Deterrence by denial.

Mr. Chairman, if Senator King wants to quote a few lines from the St. Crispin's Day speech, I'll yield him two minutes.

A lack of continuity, exactly right, yes.

Well, obviously, it is being simplified in Europe. So let me start with Mr. Laustra, and then anyone else can jump in.

This is not a decision that requires statutory change, is it?

Wouldn't those be good centers to develop demonstration processes and provide the practical tests necessary?

Keep us informed on that.

And that's the result, and the only result, of this cancellation of the MOU.

Particularly interoperability requirements.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

We are ultimately going to be judged in the court of public opinion, and I think the American people are ready to put the election, the close election that we had in November, behind us, accept the results, and move forward to govern this…

This action today by the Democratic members of this Committee is not about the qualifications of Attorney General Pruitt to be head of the EPA. It is simply about their disappointment with the results of the November election, pure and…

I, too, support Scott Pruitt, and let me just say I think objective observers who watched his testimony would have to agree that it was an impressive display of knowledge and patience.

Instead of the light touch approach to FCC regulation of broadband that we had before 2015, under net neutrality, it's now reclassified under an outdated Title II regime more like a utility or a telecommunications service.