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And pray for our elected officials and, god, pray for wisdom for them in areas they need it and guidance to follow you, lord, in all things. God, we pause today and ask you to use us as your servants. We realize our dependence on you and look to you for answers to the problems that face our country. And i pray that the discussion and the decisions made in this chamber today, god, will reflect your heart and your direction and, lord, we pray in jesus name. Amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant ...

From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. The great fundamental issue now before our people, is are the American People fit to govern themselves, to rule themselves . I believe they are. Doris Kearns Goodwin is here. She is a historian, author, so much more. Her books have brought to life some of the most fascinating figures in americas history. When did Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard taft first meet . They first meet in their 30s in washington. Teddy is Civil Service commissioner and taft is solicitor general. They lived in the same part of washington and had kids the same ...

I dont know, but i hope so. I know that for every mick jagger in the world, there are 10,000 musicians who are in the trenches and theyre all younger. Theyre all younger too. [laughter] and they depend on those royalties that theyre not getting. And, you know, lack of a performance royalty, ill just say this quickly, is kind of, its kind of a way of saying music should be free. If music should be free, im willing to have that discussion when musicians arent the only ones who arent being paid. And i really do want to hear from the broadcasters, too, because youve inherited your Business Model. ...

Recording artists and singer song writers who do value pandora because it is the only outlet, the only Distribution Platform available for them to find an audience that loves their music. Ms. Cash . That is what a lot of us are calling the exposure argument that we are seduced into thinking if we allow these performances without pay that we will get exposure therefore drive consumers to buy our records. That may or may not be true but the point still remains we dont have control over those copyrights and we are not paid fair compensation, we are not paid fair market rates. As i said before, th...

Sirius xm is well positioned to offer testimony on these copyright issues. In 2013, we paid approximately 325 million in royalties to Record Companies, publishers, song writers and artists. We have paid over 1. 8 billion in music royalties since we launched service 11 years ago. Id like you to take away four key themes from my testimony. First, parity. Radio is radio whether it is am, fm, satellite. All companies should pay for the music they use on the same ba s basis. Continuing to exempt the terrestrial Radio Companies that dominate radio listening with over 90 of the market and generate ov...