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[speaking in native tongue] translator and we want to turn this into a highvalue added alliance that is ready for the future. Thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] well, congress is on a weeklong columbus day break. Legislative business resumes tuesday. She was Hillary Clintons deputy chief of staff at the state department and is now working on this comes president ial campaign. After the meeting the benghazi committees top democrat spoke with reporters. Congressman mccarthy making clear what this is all about. We then of course have the handpicked member of the republican staff. To affirm what mr. Mccarthy had already stated we then have congressman hannah to reaffirm all of it. But even if we wanted to put words to the side, the question becomes, we have been asked to not listen to the words of mccarthy, not listen to words of discussed , and not listen to the words of hannah the look at the actions of the committee. We have a situation where is cle
The communications and technology subcommittee. Representative shimkus, thanks for joining us. Guest its great to be with you. Thanks for having me. Host and also joining us, david mccabe of the hill, thank you for joining us. Pleasure to be here. Host theres an effort in congress about who controls the internet, internet dominance, and you have a piece of legislation that deals specifically with this. Could you set up our audience and let them know what the issue is and what your bill addresses . Guest well, its called the dill the bill was originally called the dot. Com act, and it was about icanns transition of the eye january that functions, who is the keeper of the addresses, how the internet operates. And there is kind of an international struggle, and the u. N. And some people saying, you know, the United States should not be the keeper of the final vestiges of a contract, and we should have a multistakeholder approach. The Tech Community has gathered support for that, and we go
Is mandated. I think 13 its on the table. And a couple have vetoed it. What states individually do is up to them but certainly along those lines we recognize thats valuable. And are you saying that its a federal regulation . Im not familiar with the process. Im just learning. Okay. Because the extent that those are out there, what were doing is were trying to pick up the slack for a lot of failed federal agencies that havent paid attention to that. I think its extremely valuable to have so we want to make sure theres more access to providers who are minority members and being part of communities and being out there. As we have made major changes from our first draft of this bill 3717 to the current one 2646, and were working on other things there, too. We recognize thats a valuable part of a necessary change that people do have that crosscultural sensitivity to help. We want to do that. If you have other wording on language to help us with that, were glad to look at that. Thank you. Th