tests show LightSquared's signal causes significant interference to military GPS.
Mike Turner
The Public Record
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.
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.
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.
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.
I do believe that it is nonresponsive and ambiguous in many key respects of the questions that we had asked.
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.
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?
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.
significant harmful interference to the GPS system would be a tremendous liability to our defense of the homeland.
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'?
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.
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…
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…
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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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…
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.
I think all of Americans should be very concerned about the process that this went through.
The administration picked winners and losers where the pensions of many salaried Delphi workers were lost.
What does it say about the administration's commitment to ensure that people have access to their promised health benefits?
We live in a government where the government is responsive to the people. Things can't happen in secret.
Will you commit in writing to answer these questions, as you did under oath in that hearing on June 22nd?





