And its latest order has glaring legal flaws that is sure to keep the fcc mired in litigation for a long time. Turning to the designated entity program. The fcc must take immediate action to end its abuse. What once was a wellintentioned Program Designed to help Small Businesses has become a playpen for corporate giants. The recent aws3 auction is a shocking case in point. Dish, which has annual revenues of 14 billion and a market cap of over 34 billion holds an 85 he can witd stake in two companies that are claiming 3. 3 billion in taxpayer subsidies. That makes a mockery of the Small Business program. The 3. 3 billion at stake is real money. It could be used to underwrite over 585,000 pell grants, fund School Lunches for over 6 million children or incentivizing the service of 100,000. It denied them spectrum licenses they would have used to give Rural Consumers a competitive wireless alternative. In my view, the fcc should quickly adopt a further notice of proposed rulemaking so we c
In washington d. C. As part of the United States senate youth program, sunday night fa8 00 p. M. Pacific on e1cspans q a. On wednesday a panel looks at trends in Health Care Costs. Looking at the role of the Affordable Health care act in the slowdown of health care in the last few years. This was put together by the alliance for healthc reform and the kaiser foundation. Good afternoon. I am marilyn sarafeeney with the alliance of health reform. Along with senators carter and blunt, i would like to welcome you to todays briefing on the subject of Health Care Costs. I would also like to thankw3 our partner in this briefing, the Kaiser Family t foundation and we have with us today as my comoderator drew altman who is the founder of the kaiser foundation. Our Mission Today is to try to take some of the mystery out of Health Care Costs. Our experts are goingt to explain the trends, the prospects moving forward, what is driving Health Care Costs, and what policymakers and the Health Care Com
The man that we always count on to put place democracy front and center of everything. You know so well that since citizens united, the last two election cycles that have set records for money spent, including hundreds of millions of dollars from undisclosed sources, the bulk of this socalled dark money spend iingy outside groups that hide their donors go toward negative tv ads. We all know that. Would you recommend changes to the Communications Act to ensure that voters are informed about who exactly is behind these anonymous tv ads . And is there anything in your view that the fcc can do on its own without congressional intervention . I would recommend them enforcing the statute that we already have. If you take a close look at section 317, which has to do with sponsorship identification and which goes back even before the teleCommunications Act of 1934 was written, goes back to 1927, ensuring that listeners and viewers more recently know by whom they are trying to be persuaded wheth
Data security, the way the virtual marketplace is used, and the way our constituents want to have a tool box to protect, as i call it, their virtual you online. So, we appreciate your time, your willingness to be with us this morning, and i yield back to the chair of the committee. Yield back. Gentleman from texas mr. Barton want to use some of that time . Thank you mr. Chairman. Ive served on this committee since 1986. Ive served with three of the four former chairman, mr. Wiley preceded me. Weve had some agreements, weve had some disagreements. So its good to have all four of you gentlemen here today. When i was chairman of the full committee, back in 1996, my commutety introduced a bill we call the coke bill, the communication opportunity promotion enhancement act of 2006. It dealt with national franchising, Net Neutrality, public educational and governmental access, e911 and what we now call void. It passed the house 321101, but it didnt come up for a vote in the senate. I voted fo
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] take your seats, and our friends in the audience would like to take a seat, we will get going with our hearing. Ill call to order subcommittee on Communications Director technology and thank our witnesses for being here. Subcom for this worst of what will be many hearings as we look to update the king occasions act. K few sectors of our economy ors. Equal to the communications and Technology Sec atorre when it ci to innovation, investment in the american economy, and jobinveste creation. In these tough Economic Times we as policymakers should begh ecoc committed to fostering this economy. Tering of the yet the loss the regular the industry are outdated at besthat and some are affirmatively regul damaging. Indu this is whystry chairman upton b i, along with members of the subcommittee, have decided to undertake the difficult task of updating the key medications act of 1934. Cmunica in the eight decades since itsht Passage Congress have