Cspan is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Host we would like to welcome a new face to the communicators, congressman jerry mcnerney, a democrat from california. Hes a member of the energy and Commerce Committee as well as cochair of the Artificial Intelligence caucus. Welcome to the communicators and thanks for being here. Guest a pleasure to be here. Host i want to start with an issue thats in the news this week, and thats the state attorneys general investigating google especially for antitrust. Whats your take on that . Guest what are the important factors is the California Attorney general is not one of the 48. Only two states declined in california is one of them. I have had a conversation with the attorney general about it, but google is a californiabased company. If you want to look at how its doing its business practices, its important to do it in a very thoughtful way. I know the department of justice and the
What is your take on that . California is one of them. California is a google based company. We want to look at how it is doing its business practices. Its important to do it in a very thoughtful way. I know that the department of justice and the federal Commission Also talking about doing investigations and competitive practices of these companies, and its good to look at this and make sure the companies are behaving. Im not sure breaking companies up is a good idea. Big companies with a lot of tentacles. A lot of employees. If you break a company up like that, there will be unintended consequences. What will happen to the data that these companies owned . How many people will be displaced . Will it have an effect on the overall economy. Regulatory approaches may be better than antitrust, in my opinion. Does your district have a tech presence . Basically, i dont want to say we are suburb of silicon valley. More people from my district commute over to the bay area for their jobs. Quite
The Senate Commerce subcommittee on Technology Held a hearing on illegal robo calls and what the federal Communications Commission is doing to combat them. South dakota senator john thune chaired the hearing. Illegal and abusive robo calls are a clear problem. Automated calls are not inherently negative. Many Important Services are carried out by such calls and companies have a preestablished relationship. If you are on the way to the airport and your flight is canceled, if theres a fraud alert on your credit card, or if you are being reminded of a medical important, those calls are important to consumers. Our focus today is on the unscrupulous use of robo calls. Almost a year ago, when i was chairman of the Commerce Committee, i subpoenaed an operation. Hes facing fcc penalties for making robo calls throughout the country. His testimony shed light on the reality that many robo callers view getting caught and getting fines as a cost of business. Acttroduced the deterrence with senator
The negotiations between the head of magat and Vladimir Putin on the future fate of the Zaporozhye Nuclear power plant and how to respond to the antirussian resolution of the Nuclear Energy agency . How to raise a harmoniously developed and socially responsible personality . A new National Project is aimed at this when another staff starts working. What goals do the developers of these tasks, represented by the government, face . They produce and sell more and more weapons, conduct exercises and expand, while claiming that no one they do not threaten, and they themselves are not afraid of anyone, a contradictory statement by the north atlantic alliance, extremely contradictory statistics. The Stockholm Peace Research institute has published a new report on the state of the global arms trade over the past 4 years. Main trend. They began to buy weapons twice as much as in the period from the fourteenth to the eighteenth, they buy mainly, of course, from the americans, they also began to
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