Dean Heller

I can't think of an industry today that has more potential for growth than any other industry in America today: technology.

S.430 Veterans Small Business Opportunity and Protection Act of 2013

I appreciate the consideration given to all these measures and the time today to discuss them.

To say that patience on this is thinning is probably an understatement.

It is not unimpressive that over 50 percent of the servicemembers who are leaving the Armed Forces now are, in fact, enrolled in the VA.

S.674 Accountability for Veterans Act of 2013

If you worked hard, you would succeed.

It is no secret that the middle class is struggling, and what we are talking about today is on the mind of every American.

Unfortunately, Nevada has been ground zero of our economic collapse.

It is absolutely unacceptable that the unemployment rate around the country remains so high because these are not just numbers.

We all know, here, the FCC is working on a complex spectrum option right now, and we're hopeful that we can incentivize enough broadcasters to voluntarily sell their spectrum.

I believe that leads to innovation. And I also think it lowers the price point for expensive--some of these expensive devices.

I want to thank the witnesses for taking time and spending some time with us today, and for everybody that's in the hearing who's expressed and shown their concern for this issue.

I want AT&T and Verizon in the same ecosystem as our carriers, because if they do that, then our carriers were going to bid...

Hopefully, that revenue will be enough to cover and accomplish several goals. One is--of course, is enough to purchase the spectrum from the broadcasters themselves to fund FirstNet, and, hopefully there will be enough left to provide…

We burned over 613,000 acres which is about 1,000 square miles which is about the size of Rhode Island.

I want to talk about another topic that I think you can't discuss, for example, Sage Grouse listing without talking about wildfires.

There is not any agency in America that probably has more control or more input on your ability to win or lose.

For the record, let me just be very clear that I want my name in those who are asking for a Special Counsel for the IRS.

61 percent say, absolutely not [to hiring 16,000 new IRS agents].

I believe the IRS has violated the trust of the American people.

I want to personally thank you for your testimony today and for the insight that you will provide for this hearing.

And thank you, Chairman McCaskill, for holding this hearing today.

At least 50 percent, maybe closer to 60 percent, of the engineers in the state of Nevada are either unemployed, underemployed, or, frankly, have left the state.

The recession has hit a lot of states pretty hard, but particularly the state of Nevada has been hit pretty hard.