Robert 20012011 and mcdowell served 2006 until just this year, 2013. And both have appeared on cspans Communicators Program on a regular basis. This weekend, current fcc. Ommissioner senior republican heres what he had to say about the decision on the open internet rules. [video clip] to be sure, there are some who argue there should be invested back to the future solution to internet regulation. That and looking at this innovative dynamic, broadband industry, we should apply the outdated, in my opinion, 19thcentury Railroad Style regulation. But i think the key for us if we really want to incentivize broadband deployment and greater investment in broadband infrastructure is to have an approach that leaves behind a heavyhanded economic regulations of the pass and recognizes the marketplace for what it is today, which is one of intramodal competition, telephone companies, cable, satellite, wireless and other Companies Competing to provide the same service. If we do that, i am confident
The. [applause] the results indiana has become a National Leader in job growth. Last year hoosier created 47,500 new privatesector jobs and maintain our aaa Credit Rating one of the few states in the union to do that. [applause] in november, 01 out of eight jobs created in the United States of america was created by business is right here in indiana. That is an extraordinary accomplishment for our people. [applause] unemployment was 8. 6 percent unemployment when i stood here last year. At 7. 3 percent today unemployment is at a fiveyear low. Since 2009, indiana has the fifth best is private sector job growth in the United States of america. Indiana is on the move because of the people of indiana. [applause] lennys say most encouraging , indianas fourth 38th graders the second best improvement in america in math and reading reading scores and reading proficiency is at an alltime high. That is an accomplishment we can all be proud of. [applause] we have made progress in jobs and schools
Work and need to work all the time, and the way we work, role work occupies in our life for most men and women is complicated right now in our culture. The Nightingale School about 15 years ago, an allgirl school, had a career day. They invited a corporate lawyer partner, the mother of a child in the school, to come and speak, and she came, and she spoke, and she talked about all the wonderful things she did as partner, and then there was a question period. These were girls between 14 and 18. First question was, what time do you get home for dinner . Second question was, what happens if your child is sick . The third question was, how often do you spend the whole weekend with your child . Not one of these girls asked this woman a thing about the law or law firm or her political beliefs or corporate belief, so that the pressure on women who are corporate lawyers is enormous because underneath them, the generation that theyre raising are complaining, and with justification, perhaps, and
Host commissioner rosenworcel, welcome to the communicators. If you would, start by talking about some of the issues that you fore be see the fcc dealing with this coming fall. Guest okay. Well, first of all, thank you for having me here on this show, and thank you also to cspan for the great Public Service work that you do and have done for decades. Issues before the fcc, we have a lot of them. Issues are diverse because in many ways the fcc oversees the digital economy, the information economy which by some measures accounts for as much as onesixth of the economy itself. I think there are a few things we have going on of particular interest though. One of those is wireless communications. And you can look around at the proliferation of phones, and thats probably no surprise be that its an area of real interest. But with you also have to consider some of the numbers. We now have more Wireless Phones in this country than we have people. One in three American Adults now has a tablet com
And how much do we need to take out of the major entitlement programs to slow the growth and then they will kick it to the next congress but not kick it so much as instruct the next congress to bring back a plan that will meet those numbers. Reporter entitlement spending is a key sticking point. Republicans complain democrats have already ruled out savings from Social Security and they are taking many options for medicare savings off the table. From a Republican Point of view, wanting something that is really structural in nature to bend the costcurve over time, i think Something Like eligibility age is probably a musthave for republicans to vote for a tax increase. Reporter if the twostep process doesnt come together in the next few days, House Republicans could move on to plan b. That could mean the house passes the Senate Tax Bill the president has urged them to take up. It extends the bush tax cuts for the middle class for a year. It raises the Capital Gains rate to 20 , and it pat