I hope this Committee can move quickly on this legislation being discussed today.

The demand for spectrum... continues to grow with the pace of innovation among both private sector and Federal users.

Thank you all for being here. We appreciate your willingness to serve.

The Spectrum Pipeline Act modified the Spectrum Relocation Fund... to help Federal agencies fund key R&D activities which could lead to freeing up more spectrum in the future.

If confirmed, I will seek to implement long-term reforms for the regulation, funding, delivery, and maintenance of transportation infrastructure projects.

I appreciate the budget's attention to the need to repeal and replace the collapsing Affordable Care Act.

I think the idea, and then we've been happy to see, AT&T has said that they will be able to get public safety users on their network as priority users as soon as the end of this year.

We rely heavily on the interstate system, all the Federal highways and both state and local roads, too, getting our goods to the marketplace, agricultural commodities.

We would love to give you more tools to create the kind of accountability we need, and I think our legislation accomplishes that.

As you know, FirstNet is an independent authority within NTIA tasked with the creation and operation of a Nationwide Interoperable Public Safety Broadband Network.

everyone remembers President Obama's famous--or perhaps infamous--promise that he would sign a healthcare bill that would ``cut the cost of a typical family's premiums by up to $2,500 per year.'' Well, as everyone knows, that didn't…

today I would like to recognize the 100th birthday of the Air Force's 34th and 37th Bomb Squadrons. Two of the oldest active squadrons in the U.S. Air Force, the 34th and 37th Bomb Squadrons first served our Nation during ``the war to end…

It seems to me that simplifying our tax code, reforming our tax code in a way that makes us more competitive in the global marketplace, would certainly be a desirable outcome.

Legislation has been introduced by Senators John Thune, Chris Murphy, Johnny Isakson and Joe Donnelly.

To me, growth should be the goal.

So is it fair to say that the policies, the economic policies, of the previous administration have not been conducive or created conditions that are favorable to economic growth?

One of the reasons I ask that is because the best way to solve the long-term fiscal problems the country has is faster economic growth.

if there is one thing that has become clear, it is that the ObamaCare status quo is not sustainable. Prices continue to soar while choices are rapidly dwindling. Between 2016 and 2017, the average premium for a midlevel ObamaCare plan on…

the internet worked great in 2014 when there were no Federal net neutrality rules. Truth be told, even after the Obama-era Federal Communications Commission applied depression-era phone monopoly regulations to broadband in 2015, most…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. (The remarks of Mr. Thune pertaining to the introduction of S. 1144 are printed in today's Record under…

there is no doubt that the last 8 years were not good ones for the American economy. Yearly economic growth under the Obama administration averaged just under 1.5 percent. That is less than half the growth needed for a healthy economy…

I would also like to thank Senators Klobuchar, Wicker, and Capito for being original cosponsors of the bill.

I believe we should authorize the U.S.

I would like to thank Chairman Thune for being the lead sponsor of the bill in the Senate

As the leading organization representing athletic trainers, NATA fully supports Chairman Thune's Sports Medicine Licensure Clarity Act.