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With media organizations from the early caucus and primary states are sponsoring this forum and following the live forum, you can provide your input by joining our callin program and adding comments on facebook and twieter on cspan, cspan radio and cspan. Org. On tuesday federal Communications Chair tom wheeler and commissioner aji pay testified before the communications and technology. They discussed rural access to broadband and over the top Video Services. This is almost three hours. Well cal...

Been completely unhelpful. In may of this year the Enforcement Bureau says they intend that the broadband providers should enemploy Privacy Protections. What does that mean . I have no idea. I sp prks isps have no idea. I have no idea. I would rather have let the experts who have protected consumers handle this issue based on law that you have given them. They have the expertise to handle these issues, correct . Expertise and legal authority, yes. The chairman talked another issue about privacy ...

Secondary sanctions on foreign entities doing businesses with entities remain listed with terrorism and human rights issues. The problem is the laudable positions have not been made public and they are only effective if they are aggressively publicized and equally enforced. The fact is as u. S. Officials will concede in private conversations that the administration suffers from a trust deficit. Whether one believes this is deserved or not. It is there. And the fact is that not only are none of t...

Rural areas. Would you let them get the support if they offered broadband as a standalone service. Second, rate of return carriers could get into a similar connect america fund for price gap carriers. And the a cam model isnt perfect but nonetheless if rate of return carriers find it acceptable, they should be given a limited window to be able to do that. Thank you. Chairman wheeler, these are all rural questions for Rural Service so it is really appealing to the constituency, a third of illinoi...

Say this. Two things, we have our center for Youth Employment as part of the Mayors Office which my wife chairs. The idea is to over the next few years, by 2020 reach a level of 100,000 High School Students each year who are either in a summer job or an internship program. 100,000 each year, we want to start that aggressively this summer, well give you a quick deadline of may 15th. We want to start reaching toward the bigger goal we want to ask everyone whos watching. If you can create an intern...

Economy. He has already instituted proposals and rules that would benefit public safety. I hope mr. Pai will also continue to hold the f. C. C. To the highest standards of transparency. His decision to make proposals and orders accessible to the public prior to the commissions vote on them was a positive action. The f. C. C. Will continue to be in good hands with mr. Pai as chairman, and when the senate votes later on today to move this nomion along, i urge my colleagues to vot yes and eventuall...

Hearts to you. Lord, please shower your mercy on our nation, as we seek to deal with the las vegas mass shooting. Please show mercy to the victims and their families. Lord, in spite of this horrific act, give us faith to believe that evil will not ultimately prevail in our world. May this tragedy motivate us to plant and water seeds of peace, as we cultivate a greater respect for the laws of seed time and harvest. Cut in pieces the cords of wickedness that seek to bind us. Today, guide our senat...

Of mr. Pie the federal vacations. As fcc commissioner and now as chairman has not been a vigorous watchdog for free speech. He has not put to the peoples right to information first and in fact he has put corporate interest first. Outright and he has opposed policies are right that insured under serveda communities have access to essential technology and i strongly oppose his renomination to the commission. Lets begin with his responsibility to guard First Amendment rights. President trump has re...

Objection. Mr. Udall thank you, madam president. Madam president , i rise in opposition to the renomination of mr. Ajit pai to the federal Communications Commission. Mr. Pai both as f. C. C. Commissioner and now as chairman has not been a vigorous watchdog for free speech. He has not put the peoples right to information first. In fact, he has put corporate interest first. And he has opposed policies outright that ensure underserved communities have access to essential technology. I strongly oppo...

Communications in technology will now come to order and the chair recogs ins herself for five minutes for an Opening Statement and i do want to welcome each and everyone of you obviously a hearing of interest as we have a full room in front of us. And it is our first hearing in 2017 with a fully formed federal Communications Commission as often seems to be the case, the senate takes their dear ever loving time to get things done but im pleased to see that the commission is back up to speed and i...