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Good morning, everyone. My name is bruce katz, im Vice President at the brookings institution, founding director of the metropolitan policy program here. I want to welcome you to brookings both for people in the room, who are watching on cspan and i via webcast to the closing event of infrastructure week. So a lot of folks public, private, civic have been involved in designing infrastructure week and pulling it off, and to all of you from brookings, thank you. And also thank you to the foundatio...

Utahs reform started in the 90s. I happened to be governor at the time. Frankly we held together a collaborative process that lasted eight years where we put together a collaborative process to every year put forward toward what we called our health print moving toward a more integrated system. You have two very different cultures in terms of regulation but both move them forward and frankly long before the federal government did. Making the point here that different states with different fiphil...

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Thank you, madam chair. And thank you for holding this hearing. I appreciated. I know this is a focus, this panel on cybersecurity but weve also talked about reliability and a new the next panel can focus on the. I appreciate your willingness to move forward on figuring so quickly after your taking the chairmanship. I like to ask a couple of questions because we have great experts here who may be can give us a preview of what were going to next also for us to be able to compare and contrast with...

Issue, melissa. Number one is the selfdealing issue coming out from carl icahn the activist investor are i think are important issues to be raised. They have not, meaning andreessen nor dan a hoe, ceo of ebay donahoe, ceo of ebay addressed this head on. He makes an. When he was on board of ebay he and another private equity firm silver lake, bought skype from them and resold it for a huge amount of money. That is serious stuff. Melissa bought it for 1. 9 billion. Turned it around 18 months later...

Finite its a way to make sure there are Market Forces at play to entice the broadcasters to actually show up and take a good look at this, and the fcc deserves a lot of decreed, and congress as well, setting a structure where the only options are not continue being a broadcast or turn off your station. They finished a test showing that spectrum sharing works for broadcasters and theres a pathaway forward for a broadcaster to stay on the air, serve the same customers and receive a portion of the ...

Property belonging to the public. And not subject to the particular Decision Making of any particular justice when he or she leaves the court, and when you ask what access means to me, everyone that responded in terms of extreme particularity, i wrote some statistics down. My wifes grandfather was a friend of Justice Douglas and we discovered when he passed away that he had a number of letters from douglas and we were kind of trophy hunting going through the papers and seeing the stuff. So i loo...

Reality. They provide thousands of paying strangers with public ordinances Public Performances over the tv. Thank you. The case is submitted. Following the oral argument, attorneys representing both abc ereo spur brief spoke briefly to reporters. Clement, paul clement. I just want to say we are very glad to get before the court filedon the case that we trying to seek review of the second circuits decision because we thought the second circuits decision was profoundly wrong and was a real threat ...

Issues. We have callers during the first 45 minutes saying, why are they focusing on jobs and the economy. Concern think that is a that some republicans have. As i said a minute ago, many the basics see political rationale for these hearings as seen as how they can make make life difficult for secretary clinton. There are other republicans who think this is over doing it and it is a basic argument within the House Republican conference over how they should be positioning themselves for the fall....

If you want to defeat the likelihood that your military will have to go to war, make it a military that will never lose any more. [applause] and the 21st century work will be about skills. When my parents came here, they had no skills. They had the equivalent of fourth grade, maybe six grade for my mother. That they lived in a country where despite not having advanced education, you could make it to the middle class. That is increasingly difficult. You know that. It is increasingly difficult to ...