Including michael and Virginia Deputy secretary of Public Safety curtis brown is one hour and 45 minutes. The subcommittee will come to order. Rder today we meet for an update. Ont first met and the excitingcitind efforts to deploy the nationwide interoperablenationwide public t Broadband Network. I look forward to the attendance in just a moment or two and mr. Ranking member. Congress created the First Responder Network Authority to lead the Development Authority of a nationwide interoperability Safety Broadband Network in thed United States. The Communications Failures tham plague the murecovery efforts during 9 11that plagu and othern emergencies including Hurricane Katrina there was and still is the need for a Reliable Network for the Public Safety officials. Such would improve the coordination among firston on fn responders across multipleross e jurisdictions and enhance the ability of First Responders to lifesaving Services Last y quickly. The committee convened for an update on
Ranging from buckley very chalet hoe, to Citizens United to the recent mcchurch con case, have reheat repeatedly argued disclosure advances Public Interest and the court rejected the arguments put forward by senator mcconnell and justice thomas. The courts have put forward three main arguments in favor of disclosure. One, the Public Interest in knowing who is spending money to try to influence their votes. Two, that transparency serves an important anticorruption interest, and, three, that disclosure helps to enforce other Campaign Finance laws like the prohibition on foreigners or foreign owned corporations spending money in u. S. Elections. Heres what the sprem court said in buckley with respect to disclosure of both direct contributions to campaigns and independent expenditures. I quote Disclosure Requirements deter actual corruption and avoid the appearance of corruption by exposing large contributions and expenditures to the light of publicity. A public armed with information abou
Contributions to the naacp infringed on the right of Free Association because it exposed those individuals to physical severe threats and retribution. The court in the naacp case put for district test for groups seeking to avoid disclosure. And in the later 1976 buckley decision the court rejected a challenge to Disclosure Requirements based on the earlier naacp case. The Buckley Court found that the strict tests for avoiding disclosure in naacp did not void the Campaign Finance Disclosure Requirements that they upheld in buckley and the Buckley Court did say that a group could seek an exemption from the Disclosure Requirements if it they could demonstrate as the naacp did in the alabama case that would be subject to an actual not speculative verdon on the freedom of association. And in fact the fec has determined that the socialist Workers Party which they found based on history of violence harassment and threats to quote has met that task and exempted them from current Disclosure Req
[applause] good morning thanks to ppi for the invitation. With deals like a lot longer but i have been at the fcc a little less than one year. And in the Commission Time barely a blip on the radar but under the chairmans leadership were moving at a very fast pace taking on many complex issues so by way of example we have options incentive option will will spectrum infrastructure spectrum said frontier. 17 Competitive Bidding rules joint bidding rules competition policy and i suspect the pace will not let up anytime soon. What we are busy working on these issues the Wireless Industry continues to involved in challenging ways but we just dont see challenges and that is what i want to talk about todays opportunity that we see in those with arab agenda at the bureau more specifically we see opportunity with Wireless Infrastructure to make more spectrum available is a new ways with Broadband Demand and to promote and protect the marketplace also to promote innovation was divert Devices Netw
Take up any of those three bills before a response. Sheaporter i do. All of that tea partier set arrived in 2010 that forced this. If he did not like to sequester he did not have to continue the budget slashing. The reality is, what im hearing him say is that he agrees with the president to man the president agrees with him on the sequestered. I do not agree. I think it does damage command we know that we had a head start. It hurt too many health centers. We know how much it hurt New Hampshire. I would not support to sequester. Guinta i did not demand a sequester cut. What the president did was said, if you do not passed the sequester cuts the government will be shut down so to hear congressman carol sheaporter, she would have shut down the government. That is not responsible. With the president and Democratic Senate it was now responsible, and it held the house of representatives in a terrible situation because they refuse to work with us on a reasonable, responsible budget. Again, i