Marc Veasey

I think that Representative Castor, talking about the generators and some of the concern with carbon monoxide poisoning and deaths is something that is really real.

They tossed out of the Lifeline program nine providers who are either already providing or willing to provide a broadband-only service.

By taking the competition out by the current chair--removing the competition and making it harder for these new providers to--or resellers to provide Lifeline--what that has done to the entire program and what it has done to undermine it?

Lifeline is not enough. But right now, it is the only program that is connecting people to telecom services.

People in my home state they don't care about Democratic or Republican. They don't care about Title II or net neutrality.

30 percent of Latinos do not have access to broadband of any kind and when you talk about the non-English-speaking groups, that number even goes higher.

If you make $30,000 a year and you don't have to pay one cent in taxes, you probably still don't have any money at the end of the month.

Seven out of 10 children do their homework--need broadband access to do their homework.

The Lifeline program in times of hurricane is what gives people a way out to actually get access to FEMA.

60 percent of Americans who do not have access to any broadband.

I think he said Democrat Party, which is a kind Republican operative type word, and it is the Democratic Party.

I think that we need to address now before we start any large expansive movement of that is when those contracting opportunities take place to help build out that broadband, that black-owned, woman-owned, minority-owned firms are a part of…

I think it is very important that we expand our broadband.

I think urban America has to start to understand what rural America is about, and it is about water, where the electricity comes from, natural resources.

This decision today has real implications for real people and real families, and I want to make sure we know that it just isn't theoretical.

I hope this hearing is the first of many actions we as a committee take, and a key priority of mine, supporting economic opportunity across rural America and Indian country.

Whatever the future holds, and for the energy realities of today, we must act now to make sure workers in rural America and across Indian country have every tool to compete and thrive in the new economy.

I think it is very timely.

For the areas where these companies are trying to obviously maximize their return on investment where they need control groups and run tests, can that still happen, Mr. Grimaldi, with more consumer protection?

In your opinion, if we do not reach a long-term deal, what would an additional prolonged government shutdown mean for not just Q1 but for overall economic activity this year?

I believe the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Dr. Shapiro estimated that the cost of the shutdown of money that we will never get back ended up being about $2.3 billion.

Texas became one of the leaders in the expansion of voter rights.

Texas had as oppressive voting laws as any state in the union, including the three deep southern states.

This bill would authorize critical activities within DOE's Office of Fossil Energy.

That is why in May I introduced H.R. 5745, the bipartisan Fossil Energy Research and Development Act of 2018.