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We think over the long term it has served and its in the business judgment of the league that has served it, but as that shows, clubs take extraordinary examples to avoid them. Im going to continue this conversation with you and the other witnesses but now turn to senator klobuchar. Thank you. Thank you very mu. Thank you to all of the witnesses. I thought id start with you, mr. Waldron. The blackout rule was put in place in 1961, is that right . The Sports Broadcasting act was adopted in 1961. The fccs rule was put in place in 1975. Most of the money made by sports tickets came from ticket sa...

Im supposed to be at a Foreign Relations meeting. Can i go ahead . You go first. Then well give Opening Statements. I thank you mr. Chairman and Ranking Member grassly. I thank you for letting me testify and thank you for making this hearing happen. Senator bloomingthales advocating for consumers valuable partner to work with on this issue in the area rules and regulations far often leave consumers holding the short end of the stick. Im here to discuss sports blackouts and to explain why the continued use of policies failed to serve the interest of consumers, in this case loyal sports fans. I ...

From the governments in central and eastern europe. Yeah. In particular the Czech Republic, slovakia, hungary. The defense minister of the Czech Republic recently and the president or sorry the Prime Minister of slovakia both said that stationing nato troops on inner territory would be akin or remind them of the warsaw pacts invasion of 1968. This is a remarkable thing to say. Both of these countries are nato members. Both of those men are old enough to remember what the actual warsaw pact invasion was like. You have hungary, which is a complete separate story. We could have a whole days panel...

Ladies and gentlemen there is one more lost child. Im sorry, shes over here to my right, your left. Shes 9 years old from north dakota. Shes looking for her parents. If you see anyone, theyre right over here by the gate. We continue to cover the u. S. Conference of mayors winter meeting underare way way in washington. President obama addresses the group this afternoon. Thats coming up 4 45 p. M. Eastern on our companion network, cspan. All this month were covering state of the state speeches and governors inaugurations, which you can see at cspan. Org. Tonight, well bring you some of the speec...

May they serve you in the work they do as you deserve. Give of themselves and not count the cost. Fight for what is best for our nation and not count the political wounds. Toil until their work is done and not seek to rest. And labor without seeking any reward other than knowing that you are doing they are doing your will and serving the people of this great nation. Bless them, o god, and be with them and with us all this day and every day to come. May all that is done be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceed...