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

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.

Have you made recommendations? Have you responded to this notice with suggestions?

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

I am delighted to rise this afternoon in support of Scott Pruitt, nominated for EPA Administrator, and to congratulate the leadership of this Senate and the administration for persevering on this nomination to the point where we will get a…

what is the pending business? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate is postcloture on the Pruitt nomination.

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.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Keep us informed on that.

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

Particularly interoperability requirements.

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

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

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate stand in recess until 2:30 p.m. today and that the time during recess count postcloture on the Sessions nomination. There being no objection, the Senate, at 12:52 p.m., recessed until 2:30 p.m. and…

I have two requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority leaders. Pursuant to Rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following…

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.

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…

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.

elections have consequences.

I think we have a lot of information that will be reassuring to the American people.

But the other side of that is insourcing, and I can just tell you that in my state of Mississippi, we're tickled to death to have Toyota, Nissan, Airbus, Yokohama Tire, building things for the rest of the world and employing Americans…

I do object to, though, is something that has happened for years since I have been a member of this Committee, and that is somehow to list political contributions and suggest that somehow they make an individual suspect or not qualified.

I rise this afternoon to join my colleagues in expressing support for S. Con. Res. 3, the budget resolution which, as most Americans now know, is the vehicle we will use to begin the repeal and replacement of ObamaCare. This is a matter of…