As co-chair of the Rural Broadband Caucus and co-chair of the Rural Telecommunications Working Group, access to high-speed broadband in rural areas is a top priority of mine.

the Federal Government should not be picking winners and losers in the marketplace; any federal support for broadband infrastructure should be competitively and technologically neutral.

The Federal Government should not be picking winners and losers in the marketplace.

As we all know, that Puerto Rico's grid was devastated by Hurricane Maria, and here we are more than 100 days out and power restoration is still not completed.

I want to thank all of our witnesses for being with us today.

Today, we will discuss how the IoT has made American manufacturing more competitive and how innovation is improving the lives of Americans.

We really appreciate your testimony before the subcommittee.

Good Morning, and welcome to the first Disrupter Series hearing in 2018.

Thank you very much. The gentleman yields back the balance of this time.

Chairman Latta, Ranking Member Schakowsky, I applaud the leadership of this committee for holding this hearing today.

Several years ago, I sponsored the legislation on track-and-trace, from making sure that we don't have adulterated counterfeit drugs entering the market.