Mr. Mr. Oxman, who do represent . Guest ipi is a crystallization of the technology sector. We represent 70 of the Worlds Largest and most Innovative Technology companies. Weve been around for 103 years, founded in 1960 at the association of business appliance manufacturers, scales and time clocks and over those 103 103 years our industry has changed and so has iti. Our representation of tech Sector Companies is quite profitable. Host how did you get into the splendid work . Guest i been in d. C. Close to 25 years. I came to work on broadband policies after the 96 act passed at the federal communications commission. Ive been involved in the tech policy sector, worked at the fourth trade association. Iran the Payments Technology industry before joining iti. Host as you well know there are several trade associations that represent tech, and some of the companies that represent our members of a lot of them, dell, adobe, google, microsoft, et cetera. What is it that you do differently . Gue
With that association . Iti is the trade association of the Technology Sector and we represent 70 of the Worlds Largest and most Innovative Technology companies. Weve been around for 103 years founded in 1960 as the associated of business appliance manufacturers, things like scales and time clocks and the like. Over those 103 years our industry has changed and so has ipi, or a presentation of tech Sector Companies is quite broad. Host how did you get into this line of work . Guest ive been in dc for close to 25 years. Came here to work on broadband policies after the 96 act passed at the federal committee cajuns commission but ive been involved in the tech policy sector and since then worked at the fourth trade association most recently a red led the industry before joining iti. Host as you will know there are several trade associations that represent tech and some of the companies that you represent are members of a lot of them. Dell, adobe, google, microsoft, et cetera so what is it
Illusions that if they do something now because of a lack of quorum, there will not be any enforcement. It is unfortunate we dont have a quorum. It is inexcusable, in my view. We had two commissioners who resigned, one two years ago, another almost two years ago. Those seats were never felt. Never filled. Host why . Chair weintraub i dont know. That is something i have no control over. The nominations have to be made by the president and senate. It is easy to get over the long vacancies. We should have never been in this situation we found ourselves in. We are down to a quorum of four. Another commissioner decided to resign. That left us with only three. Totakes four commissioners initiate investigations, to authorize penalties and approve conciliation agreements. However, people should know before we lost the quorum, we authorized a number of investigations. We are at a high point in a decade in the number of investigations we have ongoing. As soon as we get commissioners back in, we
Guest indy. I have about those issues with me. I think we last visited when i was visioning finishing the reauthorization of the fcc, which is not been done since 1990. Of course, the mobile now bill, the precision agricultural bill and some of those components that are foundational items and in our internet ecosystem getting those provisions finished was important and then bringing that knowledge and expertise to the senate where we are dealing with privacy and Data Security issues not only in commerce but also Judiciary Committee. One thing i have found interesting about being in the senate is how you take one issue and work closely or across the platform on it. Im also on the Armed Services committee and the Veterans Committee and at veterans we are working to get everybody records in the cloud. We are doing the same thing at Armed Services so we can have someone enlist for the rest of their life and their records are all cloud based and then as they need medical care or if they wan
Technology. Were you able to bring that to the senate . Such as data privacy and things like that. Guest indeed. I have about those issues with me. You know, peter, we last visited when i was finishing work on the [inaudible] act which was the reauthorization of the fcc which is not been done since 1990 and then of course the mobile bill and the precision agriculture bill and some of those components that really are foundational items and in our internet ecosystem so getting those provisions finished was important and then bringing that knowledge and expertise to the senate where we are dealing with the privacy and Data Security of data issues not only commerce but Judiciary Committee. One thing i have found so interesting about being in the senate is how you take one issue and work across platform on it. Im also on Armed Services committee and the Veterans Committee and at veterans we are working to get everybodys records in the cloud. We are doing the same thing at Armed Services so