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First, strengthen competition, and advance innovation. At the top of that list is the agencys vote last month that will make it easier for consumers to buy a settop box or an app from someone other than their cable company. Is Technology Neutral proposal means that any company will be able to manufacture a settop box or design an app and sell it to consumers. Should a consumer wish to continue renting their settop box from their paytv provider, they can. No one is going to take it away from them...

Guest ill be giving his speech on the floor of the United States senate. Tomorrows earth date and president obama is in new york will see many countries sign the top 21 agreement for 196 countries, 90 of the global admissions of the world will sign a commitment towards working together to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions. I was in france during the negotiations. Im a strong supporter of the u. S. Leadership globally and in this country to dramatically reduce our emissions. Caller did you hear sen...

Also hear from an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council and head of nuclear institute. Hearing expected to start in just a moment. Chairman is about to sit down. We should see the gavel come down here in a moment. Live coverage on c span3. Good morning and welcome to our hearing legislative proposal to advanced the use of Nuclear Energy. I want to thank all of our witnesses that advance and ill be introducing each of you before your fiveminute opening statement, but we want to than...

Some argue that nrcs regulations are impeding u. S. Competitiveness allowing other countries like china to get ahead of us. We think the opposite is true. The. The reputation of the nrc for being a Gold Standard as senator has pointed out is a good brand and so the undersea reputation for regular safety review only and enhances that brand. We do not think we should be engaged with china and other countries on a regulatory race to the bottom just to secure we believe the focus of the bill and nrc...

Of course, mr. Chairman, todays bill is simply a discussion draft and we will need to hear from the nrc commissioners, themselves, before moving into a legislative process. But i look forward to todays hearing and i look forward to testimony from todays experts of mostly need for the changes outlined in the bill as well as the Practical Implications if these changes were, indeed, enacted. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I yield back the balance of my time. Gentleman yields back. This time i recognize m...

You may have got the new credit card recently with a chip in it. Consumer advocates from the credit card industry will discuss the implementation of that chip card technology. A group called protect my data is protecting hosting this of that. This is live coverage on a cspan. We expected to start in just a moment. Good afternoon unwelcome. It good afternoon and welcome. Thank you for being here. Thank you for taking part of this conversation today. We will follow up on the event we had last year...

There is an organization governed by visa and mastercard. They control the technology that is the backend for these smart chips. One of our Lessons Learned early on is they manage the process well. Its an indicator that we have huge concerns about them being involved in transitioning the u. S. To digital and mobile commerce in the future. Thats one of the biggest lessons and takeaways for merchants who have had to rely on the companies for this major transition. Some members of congress of start...

Were highlighted in president obamas executive order that required technology for government issued credit cards and in a pride of the old terminals at federal buildings. Others have recognized that security benefits of combining chip cards with pins. In the last two weeks, discover, one of the largest card brands, embraced the willingness to use pins. New york had a consumer alert stating in part that chip cards that require a personal Identification Number could be entered at a pointofsale to ...

So. I think youll find a lot of support among the committee for clearer cyanide, but also to resources needed to address these issues and not without a lot of conversations this morning about prevention and the importance of educating students about healthy relationship, healthy encounters and im glad we are talking about this before they get to college. There were some conversations about the teach safe relationship fact that safe relationship fact that theres a version and have been a cosponso...

The countrys borders as a way to protect u. S. Citizens privacy. So Higher Standards have accompanied the collection of information on citizens on domestic soil under the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. The problem is that our communications no longer stay window midwest i can bounds. So in 2008 the government made a strong argument that it didnt make sense any more that if communications outside the United States, if you had a bad guy in london calling a bad guy in paris, traditionally u...