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Legislative business at two. On the agenta this week, a bill that would delay regulations put forward by the Consumer Financial protection bureau, and members may also debate an increase in the National Debt limit. The Senate Returns at 2 eastern as members continue to work on a bill dealing with the cost of living increases in military retirement pay. The measure would repeal a one percentage point reduction in the annual cost of living adjustment for veterans under the age of 62 that was included in the budget agreement. The senate will hold a test vote at 5 30, 60 votes needed to advance it...

Will continue work on the intrastate engagement. I am really happy that the state did not impact the rates that will go into effect and thats the most important thing. I read this is a 1. 2 billion industry, prison telephone calls. It is an industry also that is highly concentrated. You have two providers that have 80 of the market. You do not have a competitive engagement for the families and for those legal persons that are representing those people in prisons because the only type of competitive engagement is when the facility puts out a bid or some type of notice. So that ends it and so th...

Motors chair and ceo daniel son he will beer speaking on the state of the audio industry. The house has completed its legislative work for the year but it will gather at 11 00 a. M. For a brief pro forma session. Tw nominationso remain. Several other major items include the budget agreement and the bill setting out the defense policies for next year. Furthermore, we spoke this morning with a capitol hill reporter. Host thank you for joining as. This is the final week in session. Give us what we can see over the next couple of days . Theyre coming into session after he got this afternoon and to...

Host commissioner rosenworcel, welcome to the communicators. If you would, start by talking about some of the issues that you fore be see the fcc dealing with this coming fall. Guest okay. Well, first of all, thank you for having me here on this show, and thank you also to cspan for the great Public Service work that you do and have done for decades. Issues before the fcc, we have a lot of them. Issues are diverse because in many ways the fcc oversees the digital economy, the information economy which by some measures accounts for as much as onesixth of the economy itself. I think there are a ...

Choice to do more ourselves. If we take the ee rate program and revamp it, rebooted, refocus it, we can do a lot to bring broadband to schools across the country. You have put a lot on the table. Joining our conversation is Communications Daily executive Senior Editor howard buskirk. Issuesmentioned to big that there is a lot of fcc watchers believing will dominate the commission. The first is the incentive option. How far along do you think planning is, what other pressure points, one of the concerns about the option Going Forward . In 2014 was to do one but it looks like it could be difficul...