Marsha Blackburn

We fully understand and appreciate the need for the data security.

We will start there, Mr. Kennedy, with you, and look at FirstNet's system design and talk a little bit about where you are in that system design.

I think the possible hacking of the NASA network and what we have learned from that is of tremendous concern to us, and thereby it is of concern for what you are doing.

As you know, it is not the first hearing that we have had and I am certain it will not be the last one that we are having.

I am concerned about private sector investment, and as we look at 3.9 billion network devices by the time we get to 2019...

Rate regulation is something that causes us tremendous concern.

This is important for us. The small ISPs and serving their footprint are many times the way we can increase that access to affordable broadband.

This insurance, the Obamacare insurance product, is too expensive to use once they do get it because of the copays, the deductibles, and the premiums that are there.

Shopping on the Federal exchange was supposed to be as simple as shopping for insurance on Kayak or Esurance, and that absolutely has not happened.

We have had a privacy and data security working group here at Energy and Commerce, and we all are focused on making certain that consumers are safe in the marketplace.

Wireless and mobile devices and quick purchases are changing things.

We appreciate having you here.

We want to look at the mechanism--the drone itself--and then what you put on the drone, which is where you get into the privacy concerns.

We do live in a time when you're going to see the Internet of things... become more enmeshed with our daily lives.

To my constituents in Tennessee, it is not a tiny amount of money.

FCC actions over the past several months have raised some questions about transparency and accountability.

Your policies seem to go about pushing the concept of picking winners and losers, which is not your job.

This is of concern to us.

Every penny of that ought to be coming back to the Federal Treasury.

This is highly unusual.

I have just never even heard of somebody saying that the Federal Government would approve such a process.

That is not your money to give away. It is taxpayer money.

The Kentucky approval rating of the ObamaCare products that are in the marketplace is really quite low.

So it's kind of a smoke screen type practice?

Any business in the country can be you can successful if it had a Federal backstop and somebody that was going to be there, and people have grown quite weary of bailouts.