Com. Mcsweeney the ftc is the primary Consumer Protection authority in the federal government so we have a very broad jurisdiction but we work closely with the fcc when it telecommunications issues. For a number of years, we shared some areas of Consumer Protection jurisdiction primarily. The ftc prevents us from having too much jurisdiction in this space and im sure we will get to that in our conversation because it exempts common carriers. Peter commissioner ohlhausen, one of the issues semisettled is the Net Neutrality issue, something the ftc had been involved in. How has your work changed, how has your role changed since the fcc decided on Net Neutrality . Com. Ohlhausen you are a true optimist if you think it is semisettled. I think theres still more to go in that story. The issue isnt the common carrier exemption. Now that the fcc has reclassified Broadband Internet service as title ii service, it is common carrier service. It creates a hurdle for the ftc to bring some of our tr
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The veto, only the third of Obama Hospira and see. Janet yellen obamas presidency. The fed chair got the attention of investors when she told the Senate Banking committee that an Interest Rate increase is in the works. The modification should be understood as reflecting the committees judgment the conditions have improved to the point where it will soon be at the case that the change in the target range could be warranted. Betty yellen will faced questions from House Financial Services panel. Greece has more work to do if it wants to keep getting aid. The new reforms from Alexis Tsipras clear the way for a fourmonth extension of the bailout. The imf managing director says the plans may not meet the lenders benchmarks. Christine lagarde says greece must do more. Ukraine talks yesterday between Foreign Ministers broke down to fingerpointing. Russia and ukraine lane each other for violating the ceasefire deal. President Obamas National Security advisor has sharp words for Benjamin Netanya
But, you know, without an american advisory effort and american units to partner with, theres no one there to oversee bad commanders, to say this guy needs to be relieved. When we were there, for instance, maliki removed every single bedivide commander in the Brigade Commander in the National Police and twothirds of the [inaudible] some of them twice. So we forced accountability on the state. But when we removed that check on malikis baser tendencies, he was able to do whatever he wanted to do starting with the attempted arrest of the Vice President of the state of iraq. And just to follow up on that , maliki has his own set of Political Considerations only some of which are to have an effective fighting force and some of which are to create Patronage Networks and all those sorts of things. One of the things that was interesting to me about your account of the charge of the knights is it wasnt clear to me whether maliki thought the u. S. Was actually vital in his inning. And maliki may