Good morning. Welcome to the subcommittee on communication and technologies. I am glad to welcome our witnesses back before the subcommittee. I know it has been seven months since we had you before us and i know we all missed the warm welcoming atmosphere of our hearing room. Despite that passage of time many issues that were of concern to us then still remain unresolved today. For example, i asked about the investigation into phone carrier selling the realtime location of nearly every american. Mr. Chairman, you told me even after more than one year had passed we still cannot tell whether this practice has stopped and could not say whether the impacted individuals have been notified and could not tell us that members of congress and lawenforcement had their locations sold or tracked and in june of this year you told senator blumenthal that you were wrapping up this investigation and with that recommendation shortly. That was six months ago. We still dont have them. Chairman sloan and
The achairman ajit pai greeting witnesses as the meeting is set to get under way shortly. Well have live allday coverage here on cspan3. Welcome. December 2017 meeting of the federal Communications Commission. Madam secretary, turn the floor over to you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Good morning to you, and good morning commissioners. The purpose of the federal Communications Commission open meeting is for the commission to consider the matters that have been duly posted in accordance with the government and the sunshine act. As provided in the commissions rules, members of the public are invited to observe, which includes attending, listening, and taking notes, but does not include participating in the meeting, or addressing the commission. Actions that purposely interfere or attempt to interfere with the commencement or conduct of the meeting, or inhibit the audiences ability to observe or listen to the meeting, including attempts by audience members to address the commission while the m
The false Emergency Alert that occurred in hawaii on januar january 13, 2018. Second, you will consider a second report in order to excuse me, order on recon to enhance the effectiveness of wireless Emergency Alert including improving the geographic accuracy of these alerts. Third you will consider an order addressing the remaining issues raised by parties for the committees order implementing the connect america phase two auction 903 in which Service Providers receive support for up to 1. 98 billion to offer voice and Broadband Service in unserved high cost areas. Fourth, you consider a Public Notice establishing procedures for the connect America Fund Phase ii option which will award up to 1. 98 billion over ten years to Service Providers that commit to offer voice and Broadband Services to fixed locations in unserved high cost areas. This, you consider in order to establish an office of economic and analytics and six you will consider a notice of proposed rulemaking proposing to eli
Overall number in the law, the budget control act, requesting basically a little bit over 1 trillion. 1. 1 trillion as the law allows for. Within that number, he really departed from the budget control act numbers, and he requested a lot more for defense programs. About 54 billion for security related programs. And covers that with an equal amount of cuts in nondefense spending, 54 billion. So thats a violation of the budget control act there. But more than that, its very politically unpopular. Yes members really like the , defense spending increase, but they dont like taking it out of nondefense programs agriculture cut more than 20 . Transportation, federal housing programs cut 15 . Labor, health, Education Programs cut similarly. State Department Programs cut tremendously. And congress is rejecting that. They dont really have their own plan nailed down. While they are inclined to give a lot more to defense, they are not as interested in those nondefense spending cuts. It matters of
I think we will go ahead and start. My Ranking Member senator coons will be here shortly. I will go ahead and make my Opening Statement and maybe we can begin the testimony. Thank you all for being here this afternoon. I appreciate it. Mr. Pai, just personal like to thank you for your comments last week about the tone of civility we need to strike. I think you will find that in this subcommittee so thank you for that. Today marks the first hearing of the Financial Service and general Government Subcommittee for the 115 congress. This is also my first hearing in my new role as the chair pm woman of this subcommittee. I am honored to be serving with senator coons. As we begin the budget request we welcome our witnesses. Fcc chairman ajit pai and commissioners Mignon Clyburn and michael orielly. We look forward to hearing from you all about the fccs budget request and the work you are doing to carry out the agencys mission. The commission has requested a total of 322 million. The fcc fund