Sunday night on q and a, irish journalist correspondent talks about covering President Trump and his supporters for the irish media during and after the election season. Her book, in america. Drain the swamp is incredibly evocative. Notion playing on the that the seas built on a swamp. By draining it, taking away the horrible people and replacing them with better people. Whether voters believed him and not, they were prepared to take a chance. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q and a. Announcer mayors from across the u. S. Are meeting in washington this week to talk about policy issues. One of the panels looked at possible federal immigration legislation, border security, and sanctuary cities. The mayors of los angeles, austin, and providence took part in the discussion hosted by the u. S. Conference of mayors. We are so excited that everybody is here. Thank you all for joining us this morning. Let me thank my cohosts from anaheim and from providence. This is a threeperson show t
Issues of importance to the latino community, larger than just immigration because we care about education and Economic Development and other things, that in your cities where there are large populations of latinos , that there is a great bipartisan consensus on an agenda to move forward. We will be talking about some of our defensive measures today, but i wanted to say that it is important for all of us to stay proactive and make sure that while we are doing what is right, doing what works, and doing what will help this nation move forward on immigration policy, that we not only point out the things that we think need to be fixed and solved by washington, but the ways that American Cities in particular are innovating in that space. The hundreds of thousands, indeed millions of residents in america who qualify for citizenship but have not filled out their forms. The ways we can reach out in moments of insecurity to make sure our streets are safe. To make sure that our Small Businesses
Employees will be trained. 29 of Commuter Railroads will be installed by the end of 2015. And full implementations is predict jekted by 2020. They will finalize enforcement for those railroads that will miss the deadline. As for any regulatory enforcement posture our goal is to bring Railroad News compliance as quickly and safely as possible. Starting on january 1st, fra will impose penalties on railroads that have not implemented ptc and fines will be based on penalty guidelines which establish different penalties based on violations and will be assessed per violation, per day. The total amount of penalty each railroad faces depends on the amount of penalty progress the railroad has made and fra is planning for what will come after the january 1st deadline. In both 2014 and 2015 the department and fra asked congress to provide fra with additional authorities that would address the safety gap that will exist on many railroads between january 1, 2016, and each railroad full ptc implemen
You by the folks back home want to know why what is the problem with the ftc that brought the last east that forced this change and then to respond to the questions as you know the ftc act atlarge says that it doesnt have jurisdiction over the telecommunication carriers. They say we are telecommunications and that triggered that. What constituents should come as we work closely with the ftc. The jurisdiction as far as its providers and what we do which will be forthcoming in the next few months on our privacy proposals, we will do our best so that there is a common set of concepts that govern privacy. Your response . To have the classification it is deprived of jurisdiction as the chair man pointed out because of the carrier extension and jurisdiction has explicitly been given authorization for things. Second because the fcc irrigated that issue for itself unfortunately the authority under the statute is circumscribed as pointed out section 222 is narrow arcane piece of the puzzle if y
Not to rely on safe harbor that does not provide much guidance at all. You are not encouraging folks not to not block calls are weco[ together on that fact . On that we agree which is why i propose the agency created detail specific guideline. I do not want to send mixed messages. Thank you. My time has expired. Feel free to call us at home. A prerecorded message. I think that there are issues. The committee will proceed to talk. Thank you. We go now to iowa for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chair. I want to come back to one issue that was already brought up. Before i asked that specific question i like to talk about Rural Broadband and how important it is for places like iowa but all over the country. I know we have bipartisan support to make sure we have rules in place and programs in place, incentives in place to expand Broadband Availability to so many folks run the country. It is an Economic Development and health issue when we talk about the spectrum issue for hospitals making sur