Jim Inhofe: “We can't allow this to stand, and all of America agrees. In the last 3 weeks, stakeholders from across the country and…”

“We can't allow this to stand, and all of America agrees. In the last 3 weeks, stakeholders from across the country and across the economy have expressed their opposition to the FCC decision. Not just the military, but all of government and the private sector-- including airlines, pilots, farmers, truckers, marine manufacturers, conservationists, equipment manufacturers and distributors, road builders, weather forecasters, and GPS device makers--are opposed to the Ligado's application. I know my colleagues here in the Senate have heard from all of these groups, representing jobs and Americans from every single State who use these GPS and satellite services every day. This has happened nationally. People realized, all of a sudden, that GPS would be affected by this. I ask my colleagues to consider who supports the Ligado--hedge fund investors. No one is supporting it. It is my understanding, from talking to the people close to the FCC, that the FCC was expected to reject the Ligado proposal once and for all. They had already rejected it before. It has been there. The unanimous opposition from the interagency review committee was not surprising, but the final outcome was shocking. With all of this opposition, how could the FCC decide, in the cover of darkness over a weekend, that the unanimous concern of GPS interference was worth the risk to support the investments of hedge fund investors? I can't figure out what happened, nor can the former FCC Commissioners.…”