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Mike Turner

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Mike Turner is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Ohio's 10th congressional district since 2003. He has been involved in various committees, focusing primarily on national security and defense issues. Throughout his tenure, Turner has advocated for policies aimed at strengthening the military and enhancing the safety of American citizens. His work has included addressing concerns related to defense spending and military readiness.

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Sep 14, 2011

tests show LightSquared's signal causes significant interference to military GPS.

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Sep 14, 2011

Simply put, if the FCC gives LightSquared the final go-ahead to build out its network, I fear the DOD's training activities in the United States would come to an end.

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Sep 14, 2011

It has been said by the FCC, including the Chairman, that the FCC handles interference issues all the time, so we can trust it to handle this one.

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Sep 14, 2011

Please explain the 'public interest' or 'good cause' where significant national security concerns were known two weeks before the waiver was issued by the FCC on January 26th.

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Sep 14, 2011

I do believe that it is nonresponsive and ambiguous in many key respects of the questions that we had asked.

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Sep 14, 2011

As a Member of Congress I can think of no higher responsibility than making sure our U.S. military forces are fully trained and equipped before they are deployed overseas to Afghanistan, Iraq, or any place in harm's way.

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Sep 14, 2011

Is it the public interest for the United States to have a GPS system that operates free of harmful interference? Is it the public interest for the U.S. to have set the global standard in precision, navigation and timing?

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Sep 14, 2011

There appears to be a tension between national space policy, which seeks to mitigate harmful interference to GPS, and national broadband policy, which in this particular case, would cause harmful interference to GPS.

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Sep 14, 2011

significant harmful interference to the GPS system would be a tremendous liability to our defense of the homeland.

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Sep 14, 2011

Is it routine for the Deputy Secretary of Defense to warn the FCC two weeks before it takes an action that that action 'has strong potential for interference to . . . critical National Security Systems'?

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Sep 12, 2011

The FCC has attempted to assure Congress all along the way, including in the Public Notice dated September 13, 2011, that it won't permit any national security harm.

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Jul 11, 2011

This House has three times previously confirmed our commitment to fully funding the NNSA activities. I would urge that as we go through the process of this bill that this funding be restored. I ask unanimous consent to withdraw the…

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Jul 11, 2011

I intend to offer this amendment and then request unanimous consent for its withdrawal. This amendment would restore funding to the most critically and historically underfunded portions of this bill: the defense activities of the…

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Jul 11, 2011

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 3, line 24, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $118,400,000)''. Page 6, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert…

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Jul 7, 2011

This past week, the citizens of Ohio's Third Congressional District were met with the sad news that former Congressman Charles W. Whalen, Jr., passed away on Monday, June 27, at Sibley Hospital in Washington, D.C. Born in Dayton, Ohio, on…

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Jun 24, 2011

Thank you, Mr. Rooney. I appreciate the time, and also your advancing this resolution. The President has not made the case for committing our military to the conflict in Libya. The President claims that these military actions do not…

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Jun 21, 2011

I was very disappointed to hear that the administration has prohibited Mr. Bloom from speaking to us on the important issues of Delphi's pensions.

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Jun 21, 2011

Mr. Bloom, it was the administration picking winners and losers.

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Jun 21, 2011

I think all of Americans should be very concerned about the process that this went through.

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Jun 21, 2011

The administration picked winners and losers where the pensions of many salaried Delphi workers were lost.

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Jun 21, 2011

There was inequality and injustice that was done.

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Jun 21, 2011

What does it say about the administration's commitment to ensure that people have access to their promised health benefits?

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Jun 21, 2011

We live in a government where the government is responsive to the people. Things can't happen in secret.

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Jun 21, 2011

These benefits were wrongly taken from them and they deserve an answer.

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Jun 21, 2011

Will you commit in writing to answer these questions, as you did under oath in that hearing on June 22nd?

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