Continue on funding for u. S. Coronavirus response in house and Senate Negotiators are working on a total Funding Amount and the house is exciting to see a bill early this week with the Senate Taking it up after the house. Gary shapiros president and ceo of the Consumer Technology association and he is our guest this week on the communicators. Esther shapiro, what is the cpa and what do you represent . Guest is great to be back here. Thank you. The Consumer Technology association represents over 2000 American Technology companies and we produce the greatest, honest, coolest most amazing event in the world and that is the ces in las vegas. Host and will we will get to ces in a moment but who are some of the Member Companies . Guest everyone you check to see when you walk into your local best buy, walmart, but we also have sony and apple and you name it. 80 of our companies are Small Businesses but the 20 of the big ones we have everywhere from google to air b b to lift and the disruptor
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, most amazing event in the world. That is the ces held each january in las vegas. We will get to that in a moment. For some of the Member Companies . Everybody would expect to see at your local best buy. Startups as well. The you take policy positions . We have very strong and clear policy positions. We are very strong in certain areas. We stay out of other areas. What is one policy decision . We believe strongly in the concept that innovation is a good thing and we should foster innovation. It is something that is in our dna. We excel at it. We want to make sure that people can create something without having to get permission from government. We want to make sure that the United States is the leader in innovation. We try to push policies that favor innovations. What did you learn at ces this year . Wilbur ross was there with many other government officials. Said,ke for board and coming to this event gives me faith in the future of our country. Its the optimism that innovation produc
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