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Next up tracy owens director u. S. Public affairs. [applause] good afternoon. As you just heard my name is tracy owens i am the Public Affairs for the u. S. At sage. I am also very proud alumnus. [applause] absolutely. I am grateful for the opportunity it has provided me. I am even more grateful and proud of the opportunities it is continuing to provide for students. You will hear a little bit more about that later but before i discuss more about morehouse i like to tell you more about sage. For...

Next up tracy owens director u. S. Public affairs. [applause] good afternoon. As you just heard my name is tracy owens i am the Public Affairs for the u. S. At sage. I am also very proud alumnus. [applause] absolutely. I am grateful for the opportunity it has provided me. I am even more grateful and proud of the opportunities it is continuing to provide for students. You will hear a little bit more about that later but before i discuss more about morehouse i like to tell you more about sage. For...

Policy summit. This is about 35 minutes. Joining us now, it needs to bits, board member and Senior Vice President of Government Affairs at qualcomm. [applause] nate hey everybody. Its a genuine pleasure for qualcomm to support this event again this year and i really want to thank the iti team for all the hard work it takes to produce another event. Its clear that American Ingenuity drives research and development empowering us to new to the logical futures. Policies that promote r d and strong p...

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] everyones attention. I want to welcome a great friend, a tremendous policy maker, someone who provides leadership on all of the issues and policies that we care about in the broadband industry and we couldnt have a better friend so i want to recognize ben ray lujan, new mexico, a beautiful state, welcome. I appreciate that. Everyone, its good to see you all. I was complimenting chip and incompas for the lineup here today not for everyone gather...

[inaudible conversations] a listen to the last panel, i thought about how many years we have heard the challenges of our broadband. Hearing after hearing complaining about the lack of acrate map really was refreshing of the work for the fcc, the state really a comprehensive all of government and all of our states working together to get an accurate assessment of where broadbent is and is i think it is very important to commend all of those especially sally for my home state i went to give a shou...

States have a tremendous amount of work ahead of them was sooner we get the better we can plan it. Thank you so much all of you. Please join me in thanking the panelists and we will move on. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible a listen to the last panel, i thought about how many years we have heard the challenges of our broadband. Hearing after hearing complaining about the lack of accurate map really was refreshing of the work for the fcc, the state really a comprehensive all of gov...

Joy and hope and thats a good place to ■ so, thank you very much. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Thanks a lot. [applause] a to quickly set up. We have two more panels and then we have a reception to follow after the last two panels. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] if i could have ant to welc friend, a tremendous policy maker, someone who provides and policies that we care about in the broadband industry and we couldnt have a i want to re ben ray...

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[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] well, good morning pete the subcommittee will come to order the chair recognizes himself an Opening Statement. Good morning welcome back before the subcommittee. Assistant secretary davidson the National Telecommunication Information Administration has been very busy since the last time you appeared for us and may. In a june nci or allocated the money for the broadbent equity access to the states. This amounts to 42. 5 billion dollars. Since th...

Now. The dry and windy weather are fueling the fires and now theyre threatening popular tourist locations in two towns. Weve seen some incredible video come down overnight. The wildfires have engulfed the resort towns of gatlinburg and pigeon forge, home to Dolly Partons theme park dollywood. Video posted online shows people getting out of dodge. As fire creeps close to the roads. Listen as a 15year old boy describes being stuck at a hotel. Because the only road sot logan baker were on the first...