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[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] take your seats, and our friends in the audience would like to take a seat, we will get going with our hearing. Ill call to order subcommittee on Communications Director technology and thank our witnesses for being here. Subcom for this worst of what will be many hearings as we look to update the king occasions act. K few sectors of our economy ors. Equal to the communications and Technology Sec atorre when it ci to innovation, investment in the american economy, and jobinveste creation. In these tough Economic Times we as policymakers should...

Groups in washington want him to face an ethics review for violating rule 23 of the house. Democrats, you can wait and by calling 202 5853880. Republicans, 202 5853881. In a dependents and independents, 202 5853882. Or posta tweet cspanwj your comments on span. Ook. Com c times,the washington grimm says he is sorry for threatening the reporter. He was rushing to do the verbally and said he told the reporter off because he respects as i expect a level of professionalism. He later put out a statement that he was wrong. Should not have allowed my emotions to get the better of me and lose my cool....

Us on facebook or twitter. Finally, send an email. We get to your calls, here is some of the news from overnight. Tom coburn will not serve out the rest of his term. On thursday night that he will not serve the rest to steperm and intends down because of deepening health problems. In his statement, he acknowledged that he is battling a recurrent cancer and will continue to fight for his priorities are in the remainder of his time in office. Both carolyn and i have been touched by the encouragement we have been received, he said. As a citizen, he is convinced that he can best serve his children...

Host Robert Mcdowell, what is your reaction . Isst i think tom wheeler the type of leader who is going to do what he says he is going to do. I have known tom a long time. He is saying there is that hole in the fence, and he will look at other ounces. Whether it is under the Legal Authority the cap Court Granted him under section 706, i think he will explore that. I think you will explore all his options. ,t may be full court of appeals or an appeal to the Supreme Court and it could be an attempt to try to reclassify broadband under title ii, phone service. I think that would be a huge mistake ...

To look like . I would say it followed the technological trends that have transformed all the businesses. The first and would probably observe is the dramatic shift from hardware to software centered systems. The minute you are able to do more in software rather than proprietary hardware, i think that is coming to television. You are right to ask the consumer what is dtv experience in the home. They will talk about a box that sits on the credenza. They will talk about the remote control. They will talk about what they do not like about that, to be perfectly candid. But they will talk about hal...