Everything. But as mordecai reminded her, we all are are an obligation to do our part when danger gathers. And those of us with power or influence have a special responsibility to do whats right. As ellie elie said, silence encourages the tormenter, never the tormented. So, my friends, let us never be neutral or silent in the face of bigotry. Together lets defend the shared values that already make america and israel great. [applause] let us do the hard work necessary to keep building our friendship and reach out to the next generation of americans and israelis so the bonds between our nations grow even deeper and stronger. [cheers and applause] we are stronger together, and if we face the future side by side, i know for both israel and america our best days are still ahead. [cheers and applause] thank you so much [cheers and applause] 234rb. Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes our morning program. Please turn your attention to the screens for an important programming update. Finish.
Policy director at the Benton Foundation and daniel lyons is with American Enterprise Institutes Center for Internet Communications and technology. Hes a visiting scholar there from boston college. Amina fazlullah, what is this Lifeline Program . Howd it come about . Guest so the Lifeline Program actually came about during the Reagan Administration in order to provide a subsidy to make sure that low income persons would have access to Voice Service, Telephone Service. And, you know, this comes from the notion that having everyone on the network, having access to public safety, having access to each other and commerce is incredibly important. And for low income be persons, making sure that they had Additional Support to do that seemed necessary, and so thats where the program began. Host and how many people participate in this program . Guest as of this past year, about 13 million. Host and whats the cost . Guest well, so the cost of the program is, so its a 925 subsidy per household. H
For you and the party as you observe this process unfold . Guest is a crucial time in the history of the country so it is very important to actually have a unified or unifying convention so there is a nominee somebody who gets above the majority of votes people need to rally around that person. If it is a contested convention so nobody is going into the convention with a majority of delegates the moment you showed gerald ford calling Ronald Reagan down to the stage as to signal the unity of the party party is absolutely crucial. It can be a positive for the party to have democracy flourishing in public but you do have to unify things in the end. Host veteran of the and george w. Bush campaign, ben ginsburg former counsel for the Republican National committee, thank you for explaining all of this. Guest thank you. Here on cspan2 tonight the communicators is next with a look at the fccs Lifeline Program which provides nearly 12 million households access to phone service in the u. S. Host
A program that could be due to just having a usable service. That said the fcc thought it was important to preserve the integrity of the program by instituting a number for form so they put in a duplicate database. They also put in a special task force to address any kind of issues around fraud waste and abuse in terms of enforcement and since they have put in those changes there has been a significant amount of savings that the program has seen since those changes have put in place. In addition to doing that the fcc is now proposing a thirdparty administrator to do eligibility for the program. The reason this is so important is because there have been unscrupulous providers who have been left with the job of confirming a legibility for the program and they are the main force of some of the existing broadway broadband abuse that occurred. By removing the eligibility roll away from them you have two things occurred. One, you address the biggest driver of fraud waste and abuse in two you
Recommendations, and theyre in the process of doing them. Thats correct. We had informal discussions as well as the formal letter responding to our recommendations. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I want to thank our two witnesses. Lord knows where we would be if we didnt have gao and Inspector Generals. The alarming malfeasance and incompetence of the rollout of this plan is just stunning. And here we are, you know, we cant just simply brush it off and say, well, this was a bad start, but everythings going great now. The cost to the taxpayer probably well never know. But thank goodness that we have your organizations providing us information and spurring on a seemingly bureaucratic nightmare that exists within the federal government in terms of handling these kinds of programs. Anybody in the private sector that had done this would have been bankrupt. Investors would have lost all their money. Its just stunning to continue to observe what it takes to get these agenci