"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."
"As a Member of Congress, I can think of no higher responsibility than to make sure U.S. military forces are fully trained and equipped before they are deployed overseas to Afghanistan, Iraq, or any pl..."
"I do believe that it is nonresponsive and ambiguous in many key respects of the questions that we had asked."
"General Shelton stated that he believed that LightSquared's filter 'solution' could cost billions of dollars over more than a decade."
"I must also make clear that I consider the chairman's failure to show up today to be an affront to the House Armed Services Committee."
"Personally, I believe this is an absolute effort by the chairman to avoid the oversight questions by Congress."
"We cannot afford to have Federal telecommunications policy, especially where it affects national security, to be made in the same way that the White House has parceled out a half billion dollars in lo..."
"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."
"We live in a government where the government is responsive to the people. Things can't happen in secret."
"These benefits were wrongly taken from them and they deserve an answer."
"The administration picked winners and losers where the pensions of many salaried Delphi workers were lost."