Greg Walden

It's past time to get accurate mapping data.

This is an issue I've been working on for two decades. Many of you will remember that I advocated 'mapping before money' for the Obama administration's stimulus act.

So again, Mr. Chairman, thanks for your leadership on this. Thanks for holding this hearing today and we look forward to working in a good bipartisan spirit to connect America and to have maps that show the truth.

As chairman of this committee, we worked in a bipartisan fashion last Congress... to enact legislation to promote rural broadband.

The money needs to go where it is needed and not overbilled and serve these markets that claim on the maps that are already served, but yet they aren't.

I want to thank my colleague from California, Ms. Eshoo. We worked a lot on these issues going back over a number of years and thank you for your leadership.

CFATS must provide value to taxpayers, the Federal Government, and the facilities that could fall victim to intentional attacks.

CFATS was not intended to be your garden variety regulatory program.

On this day that reminds us that our freedom should never be taken for granted and that we should never forget the sacrifices made or those that are necessary to keep us safe.

I remember being at a table much like this one... after 9/11 when we had one of those discussions.

On this day of 9/11, we should also remember our freedom is never free and never can be taken for granted.

We took a good first step, I think, in the last Congress with H.R. 1318, the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act

I'm disappointed that the majority would not allow consideration of H.R. 4215, the Excellence in Maternal Health Act.

This important law, led by Representatives Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) and Diana DeGette (D-CO) seeks to improve data collection and reporting around maternal mortality.

The critical issue of maternal morbidity and mortality--an issue that is literally a matter of life and death for women all across the country--is a difficult topic, and one that is close to my heart.

This important law, led by Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington State and Diana DeGette of Colorado, seeks to improve data collection reporting around maternal mortality.

This critical issue of maternity morbidity and mortality, it is an issue that is quite literally a matter of life and death.

Everybody is getting their piece out of our hide, and so I am interested in this as well.

I appreciate it as well. I remember when we were in business, we would find these little charges on our phone bill.

Members come here to make a difference and offer up their ideas.

But members come here to make a difference and offer up their ideas.

I think this is really an important improvement in how the committee operates.

What decarbonization really means for consumers and workers in terms of policy prescriptions remains to be seen, but we should look very carefully before we leap back into the failed regulatory approaches the Majority appears to be…

We need to pass legislation like the Resilient Federal Forests Act, which I have introduced with others to address this.

We should talk about what it takes to ensure the United States can lead on clean fossil energy technology, and on nuclear technology, and not cede our dominance to our adversarial competitors globally.