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It is unclear exactly how the court will rule, but there are indications that the d. C. Circuit is skeptical of the ftc s authority. A look at a Major Telecommunications issues of 2013 and the reporters to cover them. At 8 eastern on cspan2. Cornell University Law prof. Lynn stout has written a book about shareholder value. A recent lecture in arkansas, a professor said a focus on shareholder value has prevented corporations from making a full contribution to solving the problems of the world. T...

Congress. The house will debate more than two dozen bills including those to reauthorize the peace corps, increase penalties for Human Trafficking and bills regarding historic parks. Youre watching live coverage here on cspan. The prayer will be offered by chaplain kibben. Chaplain kibben will you pray with me. Sovereign god as the world turns its attention to the final tributes of a great queen, we pray your blessing over the leaders of this country. Each day as we renew our oath to support and...

Provider. Host and representative joe barton, a republican of texas, is the chairman emeritus of the energy and commerce committee, he joins us on the communicators to talk about some of the Telecommunications Issues facing congress and the fcc. Congressman, if we could start with a couple of breaking issues in the last week or so. Number one, i want to get your thoughts on the comcast Time Warner Cable merger and whether or not congress will end up playing a role on that. Guest well, we really ...

Host and this week on the communicators we welcome back the president and ceo of the American Cable Association, matt polka. Mr. Polka, what is the American Cable Association . Guest thanks, peter. Nice to be here again. Nice to be here with you, lynn, as well. The American Cable Association is unique in the fact that we represent many smaller Cable Operators across the country, and everyone always asks me, are there still small Cable Operators left . In fact, there are nearly 900 of them in eve...

Communicators we welcome back the president and ceo of the American Cable Association matthew polka. Mr. Polka what is the American Cable Association . Guest the American Cable Association is unique in is unique and effectively is unique in effect that we represent smaller Cable Operators across the country. Everyone asked me are there still Cable Operators left and in fact there are nearly 900 smaller markets and rural areas in every corner you can imagine and rural areas small towns and small ...

Stephanie has been active in democratic circles. She was the National Director for howard deans 24 2004 election. She helped to unseat an 18 year republican incumbent. Stephanie also managed the campaign of senator frank and i and minnesota. She defeated norm coleman, correct . She is a graduate of cspan. O [indiscernible] university in minnesota. She has a lot to say and then we will field questions from all of you. Thank you, stephanie. Thank you all so much for coming out. Good morning. Again...

I will leave it to the viewer. All i can say is that president nixons comments on the tapes are about jews in a way that is different from how William Safire describes it. Richard nixon is talking about how jews have exaggerated the holocaust because they want sympathy, and they have used it to gain sympathy. There is an anger towards jews that i believe cannot be explained simply in terms of liberal versus conservative, but i leave it to others to make up their own minds. I will tell you there ...

Of u. S. Energy policy. At 11 00 p. M. , q a with timothy naftali, former director of the nixon president ial library. Studentcam video and trees are now do, friday, january 18, for your chance at the ground prize the grand prize. For more information, go to studentcam. Org. In a rare address to the nation, syrian president Bashar Al Assad talked about moving forward but made no mention of stepping down. He proposed a new constitution, which he said would have new laws. He thanked russia and chi...

In 2011. Thank you very much. Brian, my pleasure. Thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] for a dvd copy of this program, call 18776627726. For free transcripts, or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at qand a. Org. Q a programs are also available as cspan podcasts. Next, the president of haiti addresses the european parliament. In a speech by syrian president bashar al assad, and at 11 00, ano...

The cost of a typical familys premium by up to 2500 a year. As it turns out, the socalled Affordable Care act is not so affordable for American Families after all. Quietly released the support from president Obamas Administration just last week revealed that 11 million workers will see their premiums go up because of obamacare. These are not just any workers that we are talking about. They are Small Business workers, some of the hardest working people in our country. The very engine of our econo...