Mr. Pai. Vote in favor of a truly and open internet. And i yield t paying them off. The presiding officer the senator from mississippi. Mr. Wicker mr. President , later on today the senate will move to a vote to advance the nomination of ajit pai to become chairman of the federal communications commission. I rise today in strong enthusiastic support of confirming chairman pai. In the nine short months that President Trump chose chairman pai, he has restored confidence in the agencys ability on behalf of the american people. He has the light touch of the framework. He has kept this free and open for innovators and providers. Internet technology will continue to thrive if we keep the heavy hand of government away from the controls. Chairman pai recognizes the need to close the Digital Divide between our nations rural and urban communities. Im working closely with him and other members of the commission to remove barriers to Internet Connectivity that exists in my home state of mississipp
Mr. President , after we came to use internet and see what an extraordinary asset it would be to our country, really beginning late in the 1990s, we laid out what i still consider to be the Legal Foundation for the internet. C in other words, was a lot of joking about who could the internet. The internet was being used, how beneficial it would be, and on a bipartisan basis, big effort, out really layout what were the foundational principles of the net. There were a variety of them. We wanted to make sure that folks were not hit with multipld and discriminatory taxes or tax on access to the internet. We wrote the digital signatures law which is of enormous benefit that people, for example, in the president s home state in nevada they are making business transactions. Which we made a judgment which some of dollars worth of private wealth go innovation, where he said we were not going to expose small entrepreneurs, people Getting Started in the garage to needless litigation. And one of th
To become the marvel of the modern age, keeping it free and open for consumers, innovators and providers. Internet technology will continue to thrive if we keep the heavy hand of government away from the controls. Chairman pai recognizes the need to close the Digital Divide between our nations rural and urban community. Im working closely with him and with other members. Commission to remove barriers, through Internet Connectivity that exist in my home state of mississippi and across the country. Without broadband access, these Rural Communities could lose out on critical jobs, Economic Development and many other opportunities born out of the thriving internet economy. Mr. Pai has proven hes capable of being an exemplary fcc chairman who will fight for the unserved and underserved americans. As acting chairman, mr. Pai has overseen the adoption of Mobility Fund based two rules, supporting universal service. He has sought the advice of experts on broadbrand. And hes looked at relief fro
I call the committee back to order. Thanks to the first panel and we appreciate your testimony and i would like to welcome the second panel of witnesses before the committee. First we have ms. Botts, executive director for agriculture and rule of element, position which she was named in 2013, she has over 15 years of experience working in agriculture and helping individuals in rural areas understand issues related to policy and financing. You could be of help to individual sentors i would imagine. She pent ten years working in agriculture at federal level as policy staffer in the house of representatives. She grew up in a farm in kentucky. We see her ms and currently live on a small farm with husband and two children. We look forward to your testimony. General manager, kansas america, he is the general manager of the kansas rural Water Association. His career who has spent five decades has been focused to ensure all of kansas Rural Communities have access to affordable water. Critical
Turkish, syrian border. These forms are essentially isis recordkeeping of foreign fighter, new foreign fighter joiners. Have bright of questions that include name, even mothers name, blood type but also include a lot of really interesting material on previous professions, education levels, religious knowledge, countries travel, people referred them to join isis, people who facilitated their arrival and a variety of other things. Thats the main data from which will be drawing conclusions to be there i get to the limitations of that date in a minute but i would just say the data were smuggled out of raqqa in march of 2016. We validated these data along with the Counterterrorism Center at west point, as well as some of the personal details that were not publicly available to my research and research from others. So last year we wrote a paper on this topic that looked at the regions in the world that had the highest per capita recruitment rate for isis all over the world, included western