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it is my pleasure to welcome you to this session of the center for the economics of the internets review of the telecommunications act of 1996. with us today is commissioner michael orielly, former commissioner of the federal communications commission. internets review of the telecommunications act of 1996. with us today is commissioner michael orielly, former commissioner of the federal communications commission. he was one of the original staff members working on the telecommunicatio...

Guest we created a digital freeforall in that bill where every company could do anything. That telescoped the time frame that it took in order to deploy fiber all across our country to create the capacity so that all of these new companies could get created so that words like google and hulu and youtube are are part of the culture today. But they were impossible to be created before the act. So we got a lot right. Nothing is perfect. But one thing we did do was we moved not only our own country,...

Cspan denny hastert, author of, speaker, what`s the granby roll . Guest the granby roll is a move in wrestling that you can score from the bottom. Not many people do it. And it`s good in wrestling, it`s probably good in politics, too. If you can score when you`re on the bottom and keep winning, that`s what it`s all about. Cspan where does the name granby come from . Guest Granby High School in norfolk, virginia. They were the instigator coach by the name of bill martin was instigated it and taug...

Probably good in politics, too. If you can score when you`re on the bottom and keep winning, that`s what it`s all about. Cspan where does the name granby come from . Guest Granby High School in norfolk, virginia. They were the instigator coach by the name of bill martin was instigated it and taught it. And it kind of passed through the east coast. I picked it up in the midwest, and it was one of our trademarks. Cspan when was the last time you were in a high school classroom, teaching . Guest pr...

Others on the hill with a rewrite of the 96 act and one of the principle things we wanted to do was to be able to plan. I think you guys gave us 110 rulemaking said we had to do roughly in 18 months so we were doing an awful lot of planning and that just got eliminated which meant when we came back to work we were all working double time to try to catch up. Host were deadlines extended . Guest the deadlines in terms of the fcc were extended obviously for certain kinds of filings. But you know th...

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Thats my guiding principle. From that comes for facts. Does the commission have authority to act on particular issue . What authority is Congress Given us the statute . Is there harm to consumers and a solution that we can actually remedy whatever harm has been brought forth . And is the solution tailored to the particular problem that we are addressing and not regulate by analogy . And even with those elements, the benefits of regulation now with the cost . Thats all im approaching each issue i...

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 ...

Michigan, early on after the Supreme Court decision said something to me that i just thought was crazy. He said, you know, this the court taking away the expansion from being mandatory and making it a state choice is going to end up being positive, because states that do the expansion are going to go through a process and embrace it as opposed to just doing it because they have to. And i thought that was kind of crazy. But over time im starting to see the wisdom of his reflection. Which is that ...

WASHINGTON — Aside from his bike pins and bow ties, and the holiday fruit cakes he delivers to colleagues, Earl Blumenauer has carved out his own niche in the House.