Primarily focus on the coronavirus and what another round of stimulation such could look like. This is about one hour. All right. Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us. My name is cliff johnson, the general manager here at bloomberg government. I am actually delighted to welcome you to a 2020 springhill watch event. Hopefully by now youve all the chance to take a look at the newest addition of rock biannual hell watch report that explores what to watch on capitol hill across more than 20 different policy areas and, of course, this report also examines the effect of covid19, the need for related relief legislation as was both parties agendas and plans for 2020. Today were incredibly excited to build upon of a reporting ts expert analysis through conversation with a key lawmaker that is senator john thune of south dakota who was shared with us today discuss the current state of affairs. You can participate in todays discussion on social media by using the hashtag bgov want to be sure
, and that is senator john thune of south dakota, who is here with us today to discuss the current state of affairs. You can participate in todays discussion on social media by using the hashtag bgovwatch to be sure to follow bgov on twitter. I do have a couple of housekeeping announcements just to get us to todays presentation. This is broadcast live and although we dont anticipate any technical issues, should you experience any streaming delays with audio, may be video quality, go ahead and refresh your browser. That should resolve the issue. This is also an interactive event. We want you to be a part of this conversation. Well have live calls going on and we look forward to you , submitting questions he would like to ask. Now, to ask a question, you will see a q a box to the lower righthand corner of your screen. Go ahead and type in your request and it will pop up in front of us. At the top right of your screen , you will see another box that says slides and polish. Polling. This i
Aint s Saint Andrews and rick snyder in michigan at the community college, saturday night at 8 00 on cspan and cspan. Org. The federal Commission Voted 21 to start the process of repealing regulations on Internet Service providers known as Net Neutrality rules. The repeal would allow providers like verizon and comcast to slow tract to some websites and apps. Well show you that two hour public hearing from the start. Welcome, to the 2017 open hearing. Madame secretary, will you please introduce your agenda this morning. Thank you, good morning to you. You will hear a presentation and six items for your consideration. Final report on its investigation into the faulty 911 outage at t mobility experience on march 8th, 2017. Second, you will consider a proposal of reducing regulatory on the three types of fixed Satellite Service of earth stations authorize to transmit files in motion. Vehicle mounted and earth stations and earth stations aboard aircraft. Third you will consider a report ord
I thank you for that. Today marks the first hearing in the Financial Service and general Government Subcommittee for the 115th congress. This is also my first hearing in my new role as the chair woman of this subcommittee and im honored to be serving. As we begin the important review of the budget request of the fcc we welcome our witnesses. Fcc chairman ajit pai and commissioner clyburn and michael oreilly. We look forward to hearing from you all about the fccs budget requests and the work youre doing to carry out the aenlsgen mission. The commission has requested a total of 322 million. The fccs funding is offset by fees that does not minimize our duty to insure that the agency is operating effectively, and that the funds are being spent responsibly. This is especially important since the fees are passed on to the consumer. The impact is critical in Rural America. Communities in my state of West Virginia have been hard hit by job loss. And decline and creating a major drag on the sta
What we saw was a market that was dysfunctional. So the commission took years to respond but it finally did. And we acted initially to take care of interstate rates. We acted again to look at the entire we passed on order that looks at the entire portfolio and the parties are poised to challenge that. We have published in the federal register which gives the green light to move forward and they are moving forward and we are responding to petitions for stay. Host so it is in the court system right now. But how much of a reduction in rates are you looking at . Guest what we have seen as rates we have heard about rates as high as 14 a minute. That is unusual but we are on record that happened. On average you have about 1 a minute and families were paying hundreds of dollars a year to speak to their loved ones. What we are going to see now is 1012, depending on the size of the institution, cents per minutes and it will make a tremendous lives to families. A call that might have been 15 17