Mike Doyle: “As we work to continue to close the digital divide, we need to decrease barriers to deployment, not increase them.”

It is our responsibility on the subcommittee to highlight, as we have in so many hearings, the issues important to the people we represent.

I am also encouraged by FERC's efforts to finally establish an Office of Public Participation, as well as efforts to prepare for and combat cyber attacks on our energy infrastructure.

Losing over 95,000 Americans to overdoses in 2020 is an unacceptable number. And we need to work fast to reverse this deadly trend.

I look forward to doing that with my friends and colleagues on both sides of the aisle.