the prevailing sentiment of my Democrat colleagues seems to be, let's just pass this thing and see what happens.

There are efforts by the Biden administration to have the Federal Government regulate consumer broadband prices.

the lack of broadband in rural America is not a new problem.

You can't pay for a service that doesn't exist, even if you have got the money.

I completely agree that the U.S. must remain a leader in wireless technologies.

Unemployed Americans don't need wasteful green energy projects and top-down mandates. They need jobs, the kind of good-paying jobs that come with energy dominance.

If the legislation we are discussing today was to become law, thousands of men and women I represent, millions across our nation, will be forced to take a significant pay cut.

The shutdown of these industries would mean the loss of thousands of good-paying blue-collar jobs that would be replaced with vague promises of lower-paying green jobs in far-off places.

The CLEAN Future Act doesn't hide its bias against fossil fuels.

I hope all of our committee can figure out a way that we are not so reliant on hostile countries, including China, to process and also to mine.

laws designed for telephones doesn't work for broadband

So I think there is no doubt as a--you know, as a sane energy security issue, we need to work to diversify these sources of minerals and their processing.

I would argue that this is actually the tactical implementation plan for the Green New Deal.

Isn't that the ultimate goal of the Green New Deal, zero emissions?

Removing unnecessary barriers and modernizing licensing is critical.

We need more American energy innovation expanding into industrial uses.

I represent a very rural district, as you know, and telehealth plays such an important part of healthcare delivery in rural parts of our country.

Does the American Government have the authority to dictate what can and cannot be broadcast to the American people? I suggest it does not.

I am disappointed and seriously blown away by my House Democrat colleagues' letter to the broadcasters, pressuring them to remove conservative news channels from their networks.

abundant American resources are being leveraged to create jobs, revitalize communities, and strengthen American manufacturing

deep decarbonization that would serve, really, only to kill good-paying American jobs while simultaneously increasing our supply chain dependency on China

I have to say, I find it disturbing that my colleagues are actually talking about disrupting the livelihoods and the jobs for I think this term was 'everyday people.'

As the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, recently said when asked what these workers will do now, he stated they could, and I quote, 'be the ones to make the solar panels.'

I mean, to Mr. Kerry and those who share this view, these are human beings, not machines that can simply be retooled.

I don`t agree with that.