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Unemployment insurance extension. The house not in session today. Members return tomorrow at noon eastern for legislative business. Among the bills being considered under suspension of the rules, one that authorizes 150 million in aid for ukraine and expands sanctions imposed this month by the Obama Administration against certain russian and ukrainian officials. This bill passed the Senate Last Week by a voice vote. Votes tomorrow are post poped until 6 30 p. M. Eastern time. You can watch live gavel to gavel coverage of the house on cspan and the senate here on cspan2. Cspan, created by ameri...

I do not see American Travel as some kind of a reward for Good Behavior have the cuban government. We are unlikely to see that. It is finally a gettough policy with the cuban government. If i may say, the fy 2014 languages clear about the purpose and authorizations of these programs as well as which agency should be in the lead for their implementation. We intend to follow the law and that case and transition some of those issues to the National Endowment for democracy. The larger policy debate here, but i want to come back to assuring you that we believe our implementation and passed with thi...

A lot less complicated than some people would like to make it. So when you think about it in the video space, it is not a horizontal deal. We do not compete with Time Warner Cable anywhere. There is not a consumer in america who has a choice between buying comcast products or Time Warner Cable products. At the end of the day, were are going to have under 30 of the market. So not scary. There is one thing that is appropriate to think about and discuss. It is the implications on the broadband side. I think there is a very good story there as well. Lots of competitive impacts and proconsumer impa...

Providers to negotiate on a much broader basis . Thats part of the dynamic change in the world were living in. Thank you. My time is expired. Thank you, madam chair. Senator bloomenthal had one followup question, and senator franken and i will leave my questions to the end. I much appreciate that, madam chairman, and thanks also to senator franken. Just a quick question. You and i agree that the cost of sports programming are rising, in fact. They are rising astronomically and should better reflect consumer demand. Really arent consumers the best judge of what a fair price for programming shou...

Customers on a consistent basis. It is not something were ignoring. It is not something that we are not serious about. We have spent billions of dollars over the past five years improving our networks to try to make them more reliable on additional training for technicians and for our Call Center Employees. We have created new call Center Centers of excellence, one of which is in delaware where you have specially trained Call Center Representatives with a design of trying to enhance the level of Customer Service. We have focused on a whole host of Measure Service improvements including creatin...