I look forward to collaborating with our Ranking Member and the entire committee on the fiscal year 2019 bill.

So, do you think there is enough time for them to be able to do that?

This is not a partisan issue for us, but it's an issue that needs to be resolved, long term and quickly.

Is there a need to be able to extend that out and say, 'If we run out of time...'

We are not the health experts when it comes to these issues. We have consulted of course with the Federal Food and Drug Administration and with others who are responsible for determining what those standards should be. And we are confident…

But, we want to make sure that Lifeline funding is more targeted to the rural areas of Oklahoma, to folks who are on the wrong side of the digital divide.

There are some ongoing meetings about this, but this is a very serious issue of contraband cellphones getting into correctional facilities and then literally running criminal organizations from inside of the prisons.

Where are we now on dealing with Lifeline to make sure that we maintain the program, but we also maintain its validity?

I was in a conversation with a group of Oklahomans just last week, and the issue of net neutrality came up in that conversation. A gentleman there who had published his content on the internet seemed very concerned about net neutrality and…

Transparency has been a major piece, and there's been multiple lawsuits that have gone for several years dealing with the FCC.

So, for example, the metropolitan area of Tulsa, which is one of the top 15 markets in the United States, has relatively robust communications competition and services the low prices.

I do want to associate myself with everything that Senator Coons said about robocalls.

I think you've been in this chair 3 weeks, 4 weeks--what has it been?

Most people that I talk to on net neutrality, they assume, because FCC is not going to do any more, that no one will.

I look forward to hearing how the FCC plans to execute these goals using the requested budget authority.

I look forward to a thoughtful discussion of the steps the FCC and the FTC will take to preserve an open and accountable and accessible Internet.

In Oklahoma, there are sections that I can look at on the map, as well, that I know full well there's no cell service there, and certainly not broadband mobile access in those areas.

I think the best thing we can probably do is model that, rather than legislate that.

We've got 60,000-plus Americans died from overdoses to drugs last year, so there are a lot of lives on the line counting on what you're doing.

I remain concerned that we may still be underestimating Russian capabilities and plans to influence the 2018 midterm and future elections.

I think a 30-day, 45-day even, is a reasonable amount of time to be able to go through a Secret clearance.

I believe that our mission in the intelligence community will win the day.

I think in the end state we should be able to clear 80 or 90 percent of those within 30 days.

I thank Senator Tillis and the Presiding Officer for acknowledging our time to have this conversation. This is a serious conversation because this is a NATO ally. Dr. Andrew Brunson has been in Turkey 24 years. For 23 of these years, he…

the lack of recognition that you've had for three decades from our Nation because you've served in a way that no one has seen.