And so individuals have told me as spouses, that they have gone out, sought fulltime employment and again passed over that salary to the respite person. Thats the sort of painful pressure under which individuals and couples, families are living. Many have chosen to keep their loved ones at home. There are issues of safety, economic duress, and certainly our system has to respond to that. So the sooner we set our sights on a cure, on funding thats adequate and effective for reserge purposes and for developing the responsiveness of the medical teams out there, via perhaps pharmaceutical assistance and development there, the better our Economic Situation will be in regard to these struggles system of heres a chance for congress to respond in very magnanimous terms that will allow us to state cumulatively that we get it. That were there in an order of compassion, that we understand its about a dignity factor, its about quality of life, its about providing hope to situations that may be ren
Pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida, ms. Roslehtinen, for five minutes. Ms. Roslehtinen thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to strongly oppose the december 17 announcement by president obama on policy changes toward the cuban communist regime. The cuban regime from day one was planning on using alan gross as a pawn to receive concessions from the Obama Administration and their strategy worked. In april, 2013 when asked about a possible swap for mr. Gross secretary kerry testified before congress that, quote, we have refused to do that because the
The tech the tech and Telecom Industries agree on a few regulatory matters. The internet is not the telephone network, and you cannot apply the old rules of telecom to the knew rules of internet. Three weeks three weeks ago three regulators turned their back on that consensus i i believe the internet and its users will ultimately suffer for it. The debate illustrates the importance which makes it all the more amazing that congress has not reauthorized. Since then representative marks bill was passed a quarter century ago. The situation i i intend to rectifying this congress. Todays hearing marks the beginning of the commerce communitys efforts to write and pass legislation to reauthorize. Contentious matters like title to divide the membership of this committee reauthorization is an area where i believe we can and should Work Together. It should not be a partisan goal. Both sides of the aisle have common sense ideas to make the agency more responsive to the needs of consumers, congress
And its latest order has glaring legal flaws that is sure to keep the fcc mired in litigation for a long time. Turning to the designated entity program. The fcc must take immediate action to end its abuse. What once was a wellintentioned Program Designed to help Small Businesses has become a playpen for corporate giants. The recent aws3 auction is a shocking case in point. Dish, which has annual revenues of 14 billion and a market cap of over 34 billion holds an 85 he can witd stake in two companies that are claiming 3. 3 billion in taxpayer subsidies. That makes a mockery of the Small Business program. The 3. 3 billion at stake is real money. It could be used to underwrite over 585,000 pell grants, fund School Lunches for over 6 million children or incentivizing the service of 100,000. It denied them spectrum licenses they would have used to give Rural Consumers a competitive wireless alternative. In my view, the fcc should quickly adopt a further notice of proposed rulemaking so we c
Opening statements and comments were near and dear to some of the comments that i want to make today. But before i do that, i would like to make an observation. The observation that i have is that it was my opinion that the purpose for the Affordable Care act was to guarantee all americans have the same bad health care. And i believe that this title ii decision made by this commission is to guarantee all americans the same bad internet service. I also believe two things. And i dont believe im wrong. One is, the purpose of this open Internet Order is one, to regulate and restrict content. And number two its to open the door to taxation. What i would like is commissioner oreilly and party to tell me why im wrong. Senator, ill tackle part of the question, with respect to taxation youre right, it opens the door to billions of dollars and fees on broadband. As a result of reclassification were going to expect to get a recommendation from the joint board on april 7th and it might be kicked o