Marsha Blackburn

If you don't force the issue, they are not going to take the action.

I think it would too, before we get too far down this road.

I think that the prelude to a successful auction... is to know how much spectrum that you have.

I want to thank you for your letter dealing with the spectrum auction in small businesses.

We want to be the world leader, and we have got to have you work with us on this.

Getting spectrum to the marketplace is where we need to have our focus.

I disagree with my colleague from California, as she talked about Tennessee. We saw that as stepping on states' rights.

In Texas, the department of public safety released a report that, between 2008 and 2014, foreign aliens committed over 600,000 crimes and almost 3,000 murders in the State of Texas. That is the reason that we come here to address this…

It is just their routine nature. This was not the first time they had done this. In listening to them, that is made very apparent.

So basically you are giving yourself a year to come into compliance with something that you know has been a problem.

You have got a list of recommendations. You have had waste, fraud, and abuse identified.

Why does the job not get done? Is it not a priority?

You seem to come here and punt, and we have got another report that came out this morning.

You are doing this wrong, you are wasting money, the fraud has been identified.

It is troublesome when we hear--and Ms. Maxwell, of course, you all have done so much work on this--with the voluntary nature of the reporting, and you have recommended that they make it mandatory.

Waste, fraud, and abuse is going to be targeted and it is going to be rooted out.

They have pointed out to you--let us not even start down that road. It is not a contribution.

You don't deserve more money. You don't deserve it because you're not taking good care of the taxpayer dollars.

We need to come dock you that $10.3 billion. And by the way, that is just a 4-year window.

What are you doing then to take an action, and what is your timeline?

Checkoff programs, we all know how they have worked. We are curious about expanding this to the concrete industry and how this is going to work to help with jobs growth and with industry development.

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 the bill (before the short title), insert the following: across-the-board reduction Sec. __…

I don't think you need to be the content police, but you have things that, contractually, you are to be abiding by.

That is why there is growing consensus that the IANA transition isn't quite ready for prime time.

I appreciate that our witnesses are giving us the time today and are putting attention on our concerns with this transition and with the multistakeholder model of Internet governance.