It is critical that as your agency moves forward you balance the needs of the licensed and unlicensed industries.

NTIA's recent announcement identifying 100 mega-hertz of Federal spectrum to study for wireless broadband use is great news.

I think H.R. 1320, the bill that Representative Kinzinger and I have introduced and which you highlighted in your testimony, would address this issue.

Many of these 123 Agreements and standards were drafted at a time of American dominance in the nuclear sector.

That nuclear plant kept running in the worst part of the hurricane. So that is an important part. It is reliable, it is there, it is clean, we have to make more of it.

It is clear to me that the nuclear energy industry is critical to our country. It provides us reliable baseload power with no carbon emissions.

I want to start by recognizing a great Pittsburgher on the panel and great CEO of the American Cable Association, Matt Polka.

I share Chairman Blackburn's and this committee's goal of ensuring that all Americans have access to broadband.

I just wanted to clarify that, that this is not a solution to rural broadband.

It would seem to me far more prudent to have hold a series of hearings so that members would have an opportunity to discuss and understand the proposals before us.

If we are serious about solving this problem, and we believe that people living in rural areas should have access to reasonably comparable service, we need to appropriate the funds necessary for that buildout.

Thank you, Madam Chair for holding this hearing, and thank you to the witnesses for appearing before us today.

Yes. Yes, they will.

many of my colleagues and myself are greatly concerned by the budget request we received from the Department of Energy earlier this year.

Yes, we will be doing that, too. Thank you.

I would, sir, but again, that is a final decision that is going to be made by OMB and the Congress itself.

President Trump's repeated promises on clean coal throughout the campaign and presidency, I want to point out that many members on both sides of the aisle support technological innovations that aim to achieve that goal.

I want to thank you for your efforts and the efforts of your organizations. Be assured this is an issue of great concern to all of us.

Human trafficking in all its forms--and in particular sexual trafficking of children and adults--is an abhorrent crime.

This report is truly frightening. The report alleges that Backpage knowingly facilitated child sex trafficking.

the kind of legal framework that motivates the companies to do the work that we want them to do.

Human trafficking in all its forms and, in particular, sexual trafficking of children and adults is an abhorrent crime.

I understand that this is an issue that you have been working on for some time and that the SAVE Act that you wrote, and which has become law, is starting to be used to combat online sex trafficking.

I think this warrants further investigation.

the FTC for all intents and purposes is a toothless tiger.