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I would like to call to order, the finance committee to order. Our chair, spurp mar will be here shortly, and im lon down breed and we are going to get this started. To my left supervisor norman yee and jane, kim and we should call the record. Commissioner breed . Snechlt here. Compos . Absent. Kim present. Mar . Snechlt absent. Yee. Here. Could we approve the minutes, without objection, those are approved. We will take the Public Comment. When Public Comment has been completed. All right. Lets get to item number, 3. And we are now joined by commissioner mar. Who is the chair of the committee....

Me just emphasize that we are at the Wilson Center, the nations nations memorial to 28th president and one of the nations key now Public Policy form here at washington dc. You are add to the washington history seminar, and activity since 2010 we have ten we have jointly sponsored with the National History center. Its represented here by date kennedy comments director and the associate director. Amanda along with pete in the back help us get organized for the sessions sessions that we hope will provide a forum for bringing Historical Context to Public Policy and to invite historical perspective...

[inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] i think well get started. Welcome everyone im christian, i direct the history and Public Policy Program Policy program here at the Wilson Center. I am delighted to welcome all of you to this session with jennifer metal set also on behalf my cochair from George Washington university. Since were on cspan today let me just emphasize that we are at the Wilson Ce...

Senator as chair of the joint board in the february open internet decision, the commission expressly extended the referral to the joint board. As you probably know under section 254 of the law, assessment for universal service is on the basis of interstate Telecommunication Services. And we are charged with making sure that that fund has specific, predictable, and sufficient support. The joint board is tasked with trying to figure out how to update that support mechanism, but the underlying terminology associated with Telecommunication Service is now the subject of litigation in the court of a...

Could help the internet of things really flourish. Do you think that would be the main thing then that the fcc can do is to maybe step back to offer more encouragement in many of those areas . Yes, i dont think we should be overly aggressive at this point. I believe we should allow experimentation with the internet of things. And i think thats how well see its possibilities grow. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you, senator fisher. Senator daines. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Its good to see you here today, commissioner. And good to see your family here as well. Caroline ...