F. C. C. Chair tom wheeler will be before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee this morning talking about the budget request and joining us is ajit pai. Well have live coverage in about half an hour here. Also live at 11 25 on cspan3, president obama will take part in a roundtable discussion on ways to address poverty in the u. S. Its part of a threeday catholic evangelical summit at georgetown university. Again, thats 11 25 a. M. Eastern. And also at 2 30 on cspan3, the Veterans Affairs committee will talk to deputy Veterans Affairs secretary sloan gibson. It will include representatives from several veterans interest groups. Thats on cspan3 at 2 30 eastern. This weekend the cspan cities tour partnered with comcast to learn about the history and literary life of Fort Lauderdale, florida. So this was really cultural tourism and so when they set up their villages along the way, along the trail sometimes only leaned to the buses would stop because heres the tourist attraction. The semi
Representatives for each of our neighborhoods having representatives that would come to a meeting that we held monthly. I could reports on the progress and challenges to the city and hear back from the residence. The next step became our designation as a form site. It builds on some of the work that was already underway. It allowed us to expand that coalition to bring in our School District, to get out of the silos, to bring in our nonprofits. Individuals that wanted to contribute to the social fabric of the city of camden come, it also included having our government and addressing our vision together with a shared vision. How do we create the social supports that are necessary for children, youth, and families to survive . We moved on and went through our training and receives technical assistance, we also took part of a nonprofit, the center for family services, a work with us on trauma informed care. Not only were we able to launch the cure for camden, based on the chicago model, we
Considered within the f. C. C. . Chairman wheeler yes, sir. Thats what we were saying when the three commissioners offices got together with them and said, hey where you stand, depends where you sit, sir. We have to make sure everybody understands they are sitting in the same place. Senator moran how long do you see a transition making . Chairman wheeler to . Senator moran to that broadband support. Chairman wheeler i hope we could have the plans in place this year. Senator moran let me ask about call completion. What progress is or isnt being made . Chairman wheeler there are three components to call completion. One is enforcement. We fined wind stream 2. 5 million. Level three almost 1 million. The second is that they had this fraudulent activity going on where you would hear a ring even though the call wasnt being completed. We have passed a rule and commissioner pai and i again worked together on this to make that illegal and to be able to take Enforcement Actions against that. And
A big opening weekend. What john is saying is truth. But is actually also also true for movies and girlfriends unfortunately were out of time but i have to ask when am i. Right now you, can use showtime any time. Thank you for joining us. We really appreciate it. [applause] the new congressional director is a handy guy. Also district maps a holdout map of capital hill. And a look at congressional committees, the president s cabinet, federal agencies and state governors. Order your copy tonight. Its 13. 95 at cspan. Org. On tuesday fcc chairman tom wheeler stephed on ill regarding the budget. It totals 388 houfment. He also provide an update on the upcoming spectra option which is on track for early 2013. I told you its an hour and 20 minutes. And the work that you are now doing to carry out the agencys core mission. As we consider your request for the next fiscal year we are mindful of the ongoing need to clear the way for economic options. Kennedy and hillary. The fcc plays an Importa
What was once a wellintentioned Program Designed to help Small Businesses has become a play pen for Corporate Giants. The fccs recent aws3 spectrum auction is a shocking case in point. Earlier this year the fcc disclosed that two companies, each of which claimed it was a, quote, very Small Business with less than 15 million in revenues together won over 13 billion in spectrum licenses. Those very Small Businesses are now claiming over 3 billion in taxpayer funded discounts. How could this be . Dish network, which has annual revenues of approximately 14 billion and a market capitalization of over 31 billion, has an 85 ownership stake in each of those supposedly Small Businesses. To be frank, im appalled that a Corporate Giant has attempted to use Small Business discounts to rip off american taxpayers to the tune of 3. 3 billion. This is money that otherwise would have been deposited into the u. S. Treasury and it could have been used to fund over 581,000 pell graments, to pay for the Sc