"Demand for high-speed broadband has never been greater."
"Closing the digital divide is the key to lifting up countless communities and populations in unserved areas."
"It is not headline grabbing, but I think it is fundamental to how we manage the massive amount of resources that we send to the Pentagon."
"Shouldn't there be a single system that cuts across services branches in how we transact, how we acquire, how we pay personnel?"
"It is actually a combination of both."
"I would like to thank the committee for its work on WRDA 2018, which fully authorized the port to deepen the Norfolk Harbor to 55 feet and widen the Thimble Shoals Channel to 1,400 feet."
"As cochair of the House Rural Broadband Caucus I have made expanding broadband access in rural areas a top priority."
"By streamlining our Federal permitting processes, the committee can help better connect the more than 23 million Americans with little or no access to broadband to our digital economy."
"Some of them are the multiple levels of permitting processes that have to go through that, instead of occurring simultaneously, have to occur one upon the other."
"I believe Congress can and should do more to provide adequate resources to leverage the State's investment to address the issues on I-95."
"Currently, burdensome regulations are hindering shovel-ready projects from providing broadband access to unserved populations throughout the country."