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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 f...

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 ba...

The drug costs patients 129,000. The same cost for patients in other countries about a third of that amount. I realize the pharmaceutical Companies Invest their researches, they bring a new drug to market, they should profit from that innovation, but why are the u. S. Patients getti getting gauged for drugs. Can you better explain why u. S. Taxpayers are paying for Biomedical Research at the front end and paying exorbitant prices at the back end . Ill just say that 50 of my colleagues and myself...

Night, in lookay at the fcc Lifeline Subsidy Program in a plan to include Broadband Access in order to bridge the Digital Divide between higher and lower income americans. The fcc expects to take up the proposal at the end of the month. We will talk with the policy director at the Benton Foundation and daniel lion. We are joined by brandon sasso. Low income consumers need access to broadband. That unclear to me congress would be able to pass a support for directly aimed at low income users. This...

Do you support the president s efforts to engage with cuba . If you support those efforts, the phone number is 202 7488000. If you oppose those efforts, 202 7488001. A special line for cubanamericans, 202 7488002. You can also catch up with us on social media on twitter and facebook. A very good monday morning to you and we begin talking about the president s historic trip to cuba. Here are some of the front pages. Wall street journal. Andomatic relations begin there is a picture of the presiden...

7488000. For mississippi residents, 202 7488001. For those who were displaced by katrina, you had to move to other states, perhaps he moved back, 202 7458002. All others, 202 7488003. You can post your thoughts on twitter at cspanwj. N facebook, facebook. Com cspan if you want to send us an email, journal cspan. Org. A lead editorial take a look at the 10 Year Anniversary, entitled, are submerged city has risen, lets reach higher. Host again, that is from the editorial this morning. Editors go o...

Policy play in preserving Financial Stability and how to ake sure that centralbank independence is preserved . Second, with increasingly complex financial interconnections, many small, open, and emergingmarket economies have found a challenging to deal with large changes in exchange rates. How can these economies retain Monetary Policy independence in uch a policysetting, and what tools should they use . Finally, the crisis has galvanized a broad effort to reform the global regulatory framework....

[laughter] here i am, im coming from an area of the world where you have a totally different legal system for women, different from men. If youre a woman, your testimony in court is half the value of a man. Can you believe this . So if i go to court, and i am testifying and theres a man testifying, and we contradict each other, he wins because hes a man. Thats the law. That is not the culture. Thats the legal system. So when you come suddenly to america and youre confronted that youre equal, its...

Partner in monitor breakfast land the past couple years. Shes heading off to graduate school and today is her last breakfast. Jared gilmore, who just graduated from the school of journalism at northwestern will be taking over. As those of you who dealt with her, caitlin brought gace under pressure and unfailing kindness especially to the elderly. To the many logistical tasks these gatherings involve. Thank you, caitlin. [applause] now to the more mundane process matters. As always were on the re...

Because after all, we have been taught that the pilgrims that squanto taught them to warn them of had a good crop that first year. In exchange 21 they wanted to have a big cities to celebrate and to give thanks and play a little folk all. And that is how all of this began. Our modern understanding of thanksgiving is very much a 20th century invention. It was not a holiday that was marked throughout the first 300 years of europeans being permanently settled in the new world. But now it is entered...