Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise today in support of H.R. 7310, the Spectrum IT Modernization Act. I would like to thank Chairman Doyle and his team for working with us, along with our colleagues in the Senate who introduced this bill, Senators Wicker, Cantwell, Inhofe, and Reed. Today's bipartisan legislation will help improve NTIA's ability to fulfill its mandate of managing spectrum among Federal agencies. The Energy and Commerce Committee has long conducted oversight of our Nation's spectrum resources, and we work to balance the critical agency mission needs and the demand to make spectrum available for commercial users. Through NTIA and the Federal Communications Commission, we have successfully made Federal spectrum available for commercial use, which is why the United States has led the world in deploying advanced networks such as 3G and 4G, and we are continuing these efforts to maintain U.S. leadership in 5G. Working across all of the Federal agencies has resulted in unprecedented commercial access to our airwave resources--like the recently announced 100 megahertz of spectrum identified for commercial use that the FCC will auction next year--and has garnered billions of dollars in private investment by the private sector.…”