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This is true because of the incredible success the Broadband Program has had across the country here and at the Brooklyn Library amazing things. Making Great Strides and addressing the digital skill divide. Many of us are wondering where the additional funding is going to come from . I should take a moment on the Digital Literacy spectrum to talk about the room we are sitting. This is a digital commons. It provides us through an increasingly sophisticated set of tools, faster connectivity. It co...

Security Committee Examining the policing of Virtual Currencies. Then a House Homeland Security Committee Examining the management at the department of Homeland Security. On monday, the senate Homeland Security committee examined the governments ability to police the use of Digital Currency with the laws currently on the books. Online decentralized systems allow people to Exchange Goods and Services Without using real money, including bit coins. This hearing is two and a half hours. Good afterno...

Audience to pose questions. Here we go with our panel number one. We are looking at the vision. We will explore innovative practices and partnerships. Our first speaker will be the Senior Program officer at the bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Hoping to have leon mac, director of el paso Public Library. Unfortunately she had a family emergency and was not able to the year. We are excited to have clarence anthony, executive director of the National League of cities. We will start out with her. ...

20th Century Technology to 21st century highspeed Broadband Technology. Its a reallocation of resourcef resources are never easy and never pleasant but they are essential if we are to keep pushing forward. We are moving to broadband to the person at the library. Its not just an external connection but its how do you get using wifi to the individual in a library . We are bringing the application and administrative process into the 21st century as well by using the same kind of ride band tools and...

Thank you gentlemen. That was a great way to start. I will ask our panel number one to join me here on the odium. First of all i would like to say thank you very much to chairman wheeler and to tom for being with us. We are very honored. Were moving onto the Panel Discussion portion of our program. I want to remind everybody that this hearing is being live cast, and viewers are in courage to submit questions via twitter. We also have some cards on your chairs if you have questions that you want ...

In the middle east was a catastrophic mistake but not who did what in the invasion of iraq and how bad that was but a long held american policy of arming, funding, and training sunni, jihaddist militants that goes back to the decision in the Carter Administration in 979 to arm, train and fund the knew hauge make Immediate Fund the mahajmadine and get them in the quagmire we had in vietnam and though it had shortterm gains in getting the soviets out of afghanistan, that policy has been zast us fo...

To know those products work to help smokers stop smoking. They are actually not approved for reduction. They are only approved for abrupt cessation. But there is a robust Evidence Base that when marketed to help smokers quit and when used properly, people can succeed. By contrast, to go to the questions from senator alexander about what you know and what you dont know when it comes to e cigarettes there is a whole lot to know. I agree with you totally. Can you point to any new innovation where w...

Raises for soldiers, provisions for cyber security. A version of the bill has become law for 59 years. In this letter to congress, President Trump claimed it is a, quote, gift to china and russia. And it is just the latest in a series of chaotic moves by President Trump as he approaches the end of his presidency. Plus, any moment President Trump could leave for maralago. Though the president right now is so unpredictable, it is possible the trip could be cancelled. We will have to wait and see. ...

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Thought when i was in congress the things that i tried to talk about were the things i thought were important in order for the country to move forward and evolve. Thats not always the things that were reflected in social media or on cable news. So when i thought hey this is the the concept is those what i consider to be five generational defining challenges that are going to prevent america from being the leader of the rest of the century. That was the framework of why how i came up with the ide...