Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. And as we continue our series on the communicators talking with some of the Telecommunications Associations headquartered here in washington, week were joined by Shirley Bloomfield who is the head of the ntca, the Rural Broadband association. Shes here to talk about some of the legislative and policy issues that her association faces. Ms. Medical bloomfield, what ise ntca, first of all . Guest a National Trade association, and we represent 90 small local providers that are in pretty much every state in this country who provide what used to be, you know, just basic telephone service. Theyre now broadband providers. Theyve also become kind of the onestop shop Tech Service Providers for tear communities. They do video, wireless, data centers, they do whatever Technology Needs their communities actually require. So they actually represent their interests here in washington d.
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We were anxious to get the website up and running and functional, which we clearly have failed to do to date, although i would suggest the website has never crashed, it is functional but at a very slow speed and very low reliability and has continued to function. And at the very moment that sebelius made that statement, the healthcare. Gov system was down. And it stayed down for the duration of the hearing. Sebelius did offer an apology, and she told the committee to hold her accountable for the obama care failure. While insisting that the president did not lie when he repeatedly told americans they could keep their Health Care Insurance if they liked it. But when pressed on whether the president was ultimately responsible for the laws failures, she got visibly agitated, tersely saying, quote, whatever. Yes. He is the president. Fox news chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel on capitol hill tonight with our report. Reporter lou, Kathleen Sebelius defended the rollout of the pr
We were anxious to get the website up and running and functional, which we clearly have failed to do to date, although i would suggest the website has never crashed, it is functional but at a very slow speed and very low reliability and has continued to function. And at the very moment that sebelius made that statement, the healthcare. Gov system was down. And it stayed down for the durion of the hearing. Sebelius did offer an apology, and she told the committee to hold her accountable for the obama care failure. While insisting that the president did not lie when he repeatedly told americans they could keep their Health Care Insurance if they liked it. But when pressed on whether the president was ultimately responsible for the laws failures, she got visibly agitated, tersely saying, quote, whatever. Yes. He is the president. Fox news chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel on capitol hill tonight with our report. Reporter lou, Kathleen Sebelius defended the rollout of the pres