Political Quotes

Texans have spent more than a decade imagining, designing, and working to address the historic events that we have experienced in our recent past.

Thank you so much, Chairman Latta and Ranking Member Matsui for organizing today's hearing so that we can continue on last week's important discussion on satellites.

As many have noted in testimony and in questions today, this growing industry has great potential to connect Americans in rural and underserved areas and to provide life-saving service during emergencies and natural disasters.

In Texas' Seventh Congressional District that I represent and along the Texas Gulf Coast, we are, unfortunately, all too familiar with flooding and extreme rain events and hurricanes and emergency and natural disasters.