I introduced my Made in America Shipbuilding Act to address these unacceptable situations by expanding current Buy American laws.
In the Senate version of the Fiscal Year 2019 Homeland Security Funding Bill, I've helped secure another $5 million.
So Coast Guard procurement contracts and subcontracts that are not bound by Buy American laws, such as acquisitions of o...
I would like to get the GAO to study this issue and I will certainly follow up with a formal request to do so.
I'd like to know how the Coast Guard is applying this congressional direction to the acquisitions.
I suggested that there are a lot of Federal agencies that operate in rural parts of my state every day.
America's rural consumers can't afford to wait.
I expressed my concern that we rely too much on the industry alone to tell us where the service exists.
This shouldn't be happening in the United States of America in the year 2018.
Current USF funding shortfalls are preventing new broadband deployments and driving up prices for our rural customers.
These reporting requirements are unnecessary in their circumstances and very burdensome.