"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."
"Thank you very much. This Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearing on Seapower will come to order."
"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."
"I would stress to you that this SHIPS Act is a bipartisan bill unanimously endorsed by every member of the Seapower Subcommittee."
"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."
"the world is a big place, and if you don't have the presence, you're not going to deter."
"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."
"This was a scandalous, outrageous act on the part of Vladimir Putin's Russia."
"I too agree. This is a profoundly important hearing."
"Any direct infrastructure spending Congress approves should be targeted exclusively to the few remaining census tracts, mostly rural and tribal, where there is currently no competitive broadband servi..."
"Statement of Senator Wicker."