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Well, on behalf of the leader here, i want to congratulate the leader on his sweater. We are bringing argyle back. We are very serious on this. [laughter] speaker ryan we are actually having a fantastic opportunity right here in philadelphia, where our constitution was inked, where the declaration was signed. We are talking about how we improve peoples lives and get our country back on track. House republicans and Senate Republicans are working on a plan and a bold agenda to get moving and to work with our new administration. We are very excited were going to be hosting Vice President pence, P...

Well, on behalf of the leader here, i want to congratulate the leader on his sweater. We are bringing argyle back. We are very serious on this. [laughter] speaker ryan we are actually having a fantastic opportunity right here in philadelphia, where our constitution was inked, where the declaration was signed. We are talking about how we improve peoples lives and get our country back on track. House republicans and Senate Republicans are working on a plan and a bold agenda to get moving and to work with our new administration. We are very excited were going to be hosting Vice President pence, P...

That they had a voice. That was my main job. I also advised the chairman on various policy issues and did a good bit of press. I had a variety of jobs. I was at the intersection of press shop and policy shop and stakeholder shop. Kind of a multifaceted job. Do you think you got results . Absolutely. Chairman wheeler was one of the most active chairman in the history of the fcc. And he was only there for three years. Thats remarkable. We did everything. We adopted privacy rules for lasting netiders, neutrality rules, adopted numerous protections for disabled citizens so they could get access to...

We talked with several people who are key voices in Communications Policy and with a government lawyer who combats the use of the internet by terrorists. Host gigi sohn, you recently left the fcc. What was your job there . Guest i was counselor to chairman tom wheeler, and in that role i did a variety of things. My main role was to make sure that stake holders on the other side, be they industry, Public Interest groups, ordinary citizens, knew what was going on in the agency and made sure that they had a voice. So that was my main job. I also advised the chairman on various policy issues. I al...

Chairwoman blackburn, what are some of your priorities this year . Oh, we have plenty of priorities. Were looking forward to doing some Good Housekeeping work, if you will, cleaning up at f. C. C. And ntia. Those two agencies also have to go through a reauthorization. F. C. C. Has not been reauthorized since 1990 and ntia since 92. So we are looking forward to moving forward with that. You know, we appropriate in the federal budget every year there are 310 billion dollars that re appropriated over 200 agencies that have not been reauthorized. So thats kind of item number one making certain tha...