Marsha Blackburn

I am certain that Administrator Pruitt is going to do a good job of rightsizing the EPA and the rules.

I hear repeatedly that the EPA is a stumbling block. It has not been helpful over the last few years.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Tennessee will be postponed. Amendment No. 56 Offered by Mr. Palmer The Acting CHAIR. It…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of division A (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. ___. Each amount made…

Earlier this year, the reverse and forward auctions concluded, raising $19.8 billion in revenues.

The broadcast incentive auction presented a rare opportunity to make a significant block of spectrum available for mobile broadband use.

All of this consumption has led to a pressing need for more mobile broadband spectrum.

Mobile connectivity has become an essential component of our everyday lives.

I want to thank, in particular, Mr. Costello, for joining me on that bill in a bipartisan effort.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Tennessee will be postponed. Amendment No. 63 Offered by Mr. Perry The Acting CHAIR. It is…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of division D (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. Each amount appropriated…

I believe now, as I did then, that we should work together to write bipartisan legislation to protect the internet from bad actors who want to use their unfair advantage to block, throttle or in other ways engage in bad behavior.

I take these concerns seriously and will continue to work closely with the Commission to make sure that over the air broadcasting and the viewers they reach on their main channel and on their translators are not adversely affected.

I believed that when Chairman Wheeler ran the FCC just as much as I believe it now with Chairman Pai at the helm.

We hear from our local and State electeds, it is the number one infrastructure issue.

Ranking Member Pallone said in 2010 that this is a job for Congress. I agree.

Let me be clear: Republicans have always supported a free and open internet. We must move past the partisan rhetoric.

The Commission's decision in 2015 to reclassify the internet as a public utility was a power grab laced with the irony of suffocating the most innovative part of our economy with a 1930s-era law.

We must reexamine the core functions of the Commission and restore a culture of humility that was lacking under the regulatory cloud left by Chairman Wheeler.

The FCC has not been reauthorized since 1990, and its current appropriation is over $430 million.

Giving FERC the authority that they need to go in and consolidate and simplify this environmental process for these interstate gas projects is the right thing to do. Many times, what slows these projects down and causes the situation that…

So looking at what we do with rural access is something that is going to be very important to me.

And I thank the chairman for yielding. And, Mr. Chairman, I thank you for this hearing.

I encourage this Subcommittee to pay attention to the Working Group's efforts as part of any effort to address federal lands siting issues.

Broadband is the infrastructure challenge of this decade, and the digital divide continues to plague rural America in particular.