John Thune

Additional funding should also be targeted to unserved areas and not used to overbuild existing networks.

Reliable and resilient networks across all parts of the United States have never been more critical.

Even though our networks performed very well during the pandemic, I think we can all agree there is still more work to be done.

This committee has an opportunity before it, to support the deployment of reliable and resilient networks and it is imperative that we get it right.

Expanding reliable and resilient broadband access in rural areas has long been a priority of mine, here in the Senate.

We cannot build the networks of tomorrow without a skilled and diverse workforce today.

5G networks can help reduce carbon emissions by up to 15 percent.

I will continue to advocate for updated regulatory measures, like the Streamline Small Cell Deployment Act.

Connectivity delayed is connectivity denied.

I recently introduced an amendment to call on the WTO to reform its special and differential treatment rules so that globally competitive countries like China, with the world's second largest economy, can no longer self-designate as a…

We write to thank you for your support of patients and providers in the mental health community by introducing the Telemental Health Care Access Act.

The Biden administration has proposed having banks report to the IRS, both inflows and outflows, of business and personal accounts, which would be a significant new intrusion into taxpayers' lives.

The highest, as I think you know, in 13 years.

The in-person requirement passed last year is not consistent with multiple telehealth policies previously enacted by this committee.

I think most everyone can agree that telehealth has proven to be an important tool on our tool belt for increasing access to mental health services.

Let me begin by saying that I am grateful to Senators Klobuchar, Blunt, Peters, and Portman and the two Senate committees that they lead for their bipartisan investigation into the events of January 6, and for producing a detailed report…

We need those set of guardrails that we have been describing, so that students can monetize their name, image, and likeness.

I think, Dr. Emmert, you mentioned that--in your written statement, at least, that you did not think--that you could not support anything that would essentially create an employer/employee relationship.

What we do is still a point of discussion.

This is a complicated subject and one that I really wish the NCAA would have been able to figure out.

I think it would be a benefit to all of us to hear, specifically, from people who I consider to be experts.

I understand the President has suggested an exemption for family farms and businesses, but it remains to be seen what that looks like.

President Biden has said that nobody earning $400,000 or less would be hit by new taxes.

It seems to me that some middle-class Americans would be hit by the administration's new death tax.

I think a lot of our members and a lot of House Republicans want to be moving forward, not looking backward, and, you know, anything that gets us rehashing the 2020 election, I think, is a day lost on being able to draw contrast between us…