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Communicators and look at their legislative agenda and the policy agenda of the federal Communications Commission. Joining us are three reporters who Cover Technology policy. Gautham nagesh of congressional quarterly, whats an issue that you see forthcoming in the next congress . Guest well, i think cybersecurity remains the top priority because of its National Security implications. We saw that congress failed to reach an agreement on cybersecurity legislation in 2012 as perhaps many would have...

Democratizing force. It is powerful in terms of being a ladder for social and economic mobility. But right now there are really significant discrepancies in the adoption and availability of a lot of these technologies such as broadband in lower income communities. So im concerned about that these communities are often the vulnerable populations. And that theyre often adversely affected by technology transitions. So the question very simply is, is what can we do, what should we be doing to ensure...

Areas, and sustaining existing capabilities. But, again, that measure can be better. On the administrative management side, weve made progress in measuring our ability to effectively, efficiently release the funding, monitor programmatic use of the funds, monitor grantee Financial Management of the funds, monitor the closing of the awards and grantee draw down. Were making progress, mr. Chairman, weve got an opportunity to make even more. Thanks. Yes, sir. For us, i think its about getting good,...

This process. Ill just this is a long time ago, but ill share an experience with you. I bought a company in puerto rico, put it into four containers, all the equipment. Everything that was there. All four container arrived at one of my plants here. All the seals were there. When we opened the containers, everything of significant value that could have been marketed was gone. But the seals were still there. So the fact is, and that was way before 9 11. That was in the 70s. But the fact is, that p...

Im worried about holes or gaps. If i can go down that way of this idea of the penetration were seeing sort of equally applied, you know, access to technology is to me a great democratizing force. It is powerful in terms of being a ladder for social and economic mobility. But right now there are really significant discrepancies in the adoption and availability of a lot of these technologies such as broadband in lower income communities. So im concerned about that these communities are often the v...

Witnesses today. Theres a lot of attendance today. Obviously a discussion that many people are interested in. We do have a series of four votes beginning in a halfhour so im going to be very strict with the time clock today in allowing five minutes to each senator and well be calling on people in order of arrival. So with that, ms. Jones, i wanted to start with you and thank you for sharing your story and being here today to testify. Your story actually really resonates with me. All of my brothe...

I said we needed to temporarily extend that 3 4 of a penny. I have always said as governor i would not raise that sales tax. If you go to my website and look in my education plan, you will see why Fund Everything i have talked about. There is 1 billion out there that i have identified that is real and will form that without any increase in the sales tax. The only tax that would be increased is taking back a tax benefit that the Republican Legislature gave to people making hundreds of thousands o...

Wondered making this film we saw the Auto Industry bailout and a bank bailout, are we heading into an era of bailouts for cities . More on this sunday at 8 00 on cspans q a. Cspan is asking middle and High School Students to send a message to the president in a short video. They will answer the question what is the most important issue the president should consider in 2014 . This is open to students grade 612. Go on line to student can. Org for more details. In North Carolina, a former republica...

Loan debt. It announced a measure late in the week that democrats plan a student loan push in june. What are they proposing to do . This is a way to lower the Interest Rates on student loans. What is interesting about this you have to look at everything especially that the senate is doing this year as an electionyear push. Democrats found the student loan push helpful when they took recontrol of the senate. They have done it repeatedly. It is an issue not only with young people but with families...

Involved because it is not just the right thing to do for veterans, but also the right thing to do for their budgets. Onent studies have shown chronically homeless person can cost communities between 30 50,000 per year in emergency room visits, medical bills, Law Enforcement for some individuals can be even higher. The cost to give someone a home the cost to give someone a home of their own is only about 20,000. This is on so many Different Levels and that is why i want to applaud everyone leadi...