I'm convinced we can upgrade federal systems while freeing spectrum, thereby promoting both our nation's safety and economic well-being.

That is why last Congress Ranking Member Eshoo and I created a working group, led by Reps. Guthrie and Matsui that focused on federal spectrum use.

I hope that NTIA, DOT, and the FCC will work with industry stakeholders on a path forward for connected vehicle technology.

I think your point is you want better disclosure to the public and truth in advertising.

I thank my colleagues from Oregon and Washington for their work on this amendment, bringing it forward. Look, this is extraordinarily important to men and women who work in the woods in the Northwest and across the United States. As you've…

we don't have a solution until we address the needs of the entire Basin.

Should Congress repeal the law, reauthorize it as is, or revise it, possibly even tackling non-satellite specific video issues?

Instead of allowing a vast web of government regulations to influence the carriage of programming, we should trust the consumer demand.

As I did last Congress, I will urge that we abide by a cyber Hippocratic Oath and first do no harm as we consider the tools available to the public and private sectors in making our communications supply chain secure.

Many of us have concluded that promoting information sharing through the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act that he and Rep. Ruppersberger have now twice ushered through the House is pivotal to better securing our networks.

We are going to call to order the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology for our hearing on 'Cybersecurity: an Examination of the Communications Supply Chain.'

Reps. Mike Rogers and Anna Eshoo will co-chair the group, which will also include Reps. Latta, Doyle, Terry, Lujan, Kinzinger, and Matheson.

In closing, Mr. Speaker, freedom of the Internet is as essential as America's long held constitutional belief in freedom of the press, and we don't need governments--ours or others--infringing on how the Internet is managed and governed…

When the government spends other people's money, it has an ongoing obligation to ask a fundamental question: has it spent that money wisely?

the Lifeline fund has been fraught with waste, fraud, and abuse and that the money has not been spent as wisely as it should have been.

I am encouraged by the Committee's keen interest in identifying long-term solutions for our Federal forest counties and the hard-working people who live there.

How could we let this happen to our rural forested communities?

This is an important and timely hearing and I'm encouraged by the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks Forests and Public Lands interest in identifying a long-term solution for our federal forest counties and the…

It is time for action. It's time to stop talking about 'principles' and 'concepts' and to start moving forward with specific, legislative ideas.

President Theodore Roosevelt, the father of our great forest system, would be horrified at the condition of our forests and our rural communities.

It's time for real change.

I am committed to continuing in that effort, as I have in the past on legislation like forest restoration.

It is clear the status quo is not working, and we need to get our rural communities working again.

While we need to reauthorize the critical program--a program I have strongly supported and worked hard to extend--these support payments are not a sustainable, long-term solution for Western Oregon.

I recognize my colleagues from Oregon, Representatives Peter DeFazio and Kurt Schrader, for working with me and many other Oregonians who agree that the status quo serves no one well.