Legacy energy source. Senator udall of new mexico and i have an amendment that will close a loophole in federal Energy Policy. I want my colleagues to know, and i think they do, of my long support for renewable and alternative sources of energy and so i agree with the aims of the murkowskimachin murkowskiy bill. The amendment that senator udall and i have introduced is the same as the bipartisan bill we introduced last week. The title of that bill is the fair return for public lands act. Mr. Grassley this bill was introduced 100 years to the date of the mineral leasing act of 1920. This amendment would increase the royalty rates on federal lands from 12. 5 to 18. 75 . Everybody here knows that a royalty is what the oil company will pay to a mineral owner. In this case the mineral owner is the american taxpayer, and that royalty is paid for the right to extract oil and natural gas from the lands of the United States. The legislation modernizes the public lands leasing system and it does
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Association. Good afternoon, everyone. If folks can take their seats, i think were going to get started. Thanks again for being here. Im vanessa cinders and i have the pleasure of leading chart rers team here in washington. We really appreciate you taking time out of your busy schedule to listen to this great lineup of speakers. Weve convened this group today to talk about a spectrum issue thats critically important to 5g and broadband deployment. Were going to start with an introduction of the plan then move to an expert panel discussion. Its my pleasure to interview matt polka of acc connects and steve berry of cca. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to our briefing on this important issue. My name is matt polka, president and ceo of aca connects. Americas communications association. Formally known as the american cable association. And we are very, very pleased to be here today along with our partners at chatter and cca to talk to you u about this important issue that affects all of
Were honored to have them here today. A special welcome to our commissioners of the Advisory Commission for Public Diplomacy, chairman farar, vice chairman bill hible and commissioner ann weidner. Today, as you know, under the auspices of the Advisory Commission weve called a Public Meeting to look at the question of the gpa, the newly formed gpa. And where it fits into state departments vision for Public Diplomacy Going Forward in the 21st century. And as vivian walker, executive director, it is my honor to open this event. Before i turn the mic over to my colleague for opening comments, i just want to tell you a little bit about how things are going to go today. Mr. Farar will give us brief comments and well turn it over to our principal speakers. Theyll speak in a tagteam formation. At the end of their presentation well be happy to take your questions and comments. Please hold your questions and comments until they have finished their presentation. For the moderated q a session, the
Point i may lose my voice, raise your hand and i will know you dont hear me. Im happy to have come here. Its been a lot of years in washington and i was here, as a matter of fact, when some of these events described in the book took place but i was here as an undergraduate in later as a teacher, instructor at howard university. Every nation, of course, has noble times, times that it wants to remember. Times that they want its population to remember. As an ideal of itself move the microphone down, please. [inaudible] [laughter] bath a little better. [laughter] these times that most nations identify are usually wars conquests, for land, conquests or resources and they may be wars for the deposing of a king or a czar or a dictator and they may be wars defending ones self against an oppressor or in invader. But they are generally honorable and bloodied. The best ones are honorable. The worst ones are like the honorable ones only in the fact that they usually swim in blood. But here in this