Good morning. Welcome to the nixon president ial library and museum. My name is joe lopez, Vice President of Marketing Communications for the Richard Nixon foundation. Were pleased to have you here today in yorba linda and a greeting to those of you watching on cspan and youtube today. Todays legacy forum is copresented by the Richard Foundation and the nixon president ial library, National Archives and administration. Weve done more than 30 of these nixon legacy forums over the past ten years, and you can find all of them on our website. Nixon foundation dot org. Id like to start by introducing Geoff Shepard. Jeff served as, associate director of the Domestic Council in the Nixon Administration and now a member of the board of directors of, the Richard Nixon foundation. Jeff, kick us off. Thank you, joe. Geoff shepard beginning in 2010, we began seeing what we call nixon forums and theyre cosponsored in the past the Nixon Foundation and National Archives as. They are usually recorded,
Sued to be blocked by the Justice Departments antitrust division, having an affect on Corporate America and pending deals. Including our own attempts to sell assets, what it would mean in terms of antitrust, all those deals right now are being recalculated and looked at. Whether these if the Justice Department is not allowing this one to go through, everyone thought it was a slamdunk from antitrust stand point. Would they allow disney to buy foxs studios. They would controls large portion of box office. And comcast to buy content. Will thig they allow verizon toy our content, because they have distribution. It looks like the Justice Department is taking another view of the antitrust. Another aspect. Crazy political cob, donald trump as candidate one said he wanted a spinoff of cnn if this deal of the going through, he said it was too much construction of power, people thought it was a idle threat, but senior aides were actually discussing this topic. By current senior adviser. And othe
Good morning. The health labor on education and pension will come to order. This is another bipartisan hearings, which means senator murray and i have agreed on the subject and the witnesses. In falkt i would say every member in the committee would probably agree on the subject and Witnesses Today because this is a hearing entitled implementation of the cures act. The path forward to hear from dr. Frances collins, the National Institutes of health and dr. Gotlieb, the commissioner of food and drugs. Senator murphy will have a hearing wednesday on another reorganization which they played a major role in. We look forward to that. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then introduce our panel of witnesses. After, senators will have five minutes of questions. In 2007 doug oliver, who is in the front row i believe, a Computer Programmer began to have trouble, had his drivers license taken away and declared legally bliepd. It was a rare form of macular degeneration. He
Good morning. The health labor on education and pension will come to order. This is another bipartisan hearings, which means senator murray and i have agreed on the subject and the witnesses. In falkt i would say every member in the committee would probably agree on the subject and Witnesses Today because this is a hearing entitled implementation of the cures act. The path forward to hear from dr. Frances collins, the National Institutes of health and dr. Gotlieb, the commissioner of food and drugs. Senator murphy will have a hearing wednesday on another reorganization which they played a major role in. We look forward to that. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then introduce our panel of witnesses. After, senators will have five minutes of questions. In 2007 doug oliver, who is in the front row i believe, a Computer Programmer began to have trouble, had his drivers license taken away and declared legally bliepd. It was a rare form of macular degeneration. He
Thethe l. A. Times, deregulation of at t, comcast, and other raw been providers is a dramatic advocation of authority that could usher in an thatnew era for Companies Offer services and content online and the people who rely on them. Theobvious problem is that broadband providers could pick winners and losers online. There is also a realistic fear that broadband providers would favor their own sites and services because some are doing it already. For example, at t effectively exempts video streams from its directv subsidiary from its wireless data caps. Congress these to clean up the pai that the fcc chair ajit is making. Right,s absolutely giving preferential treatment to some providers over others like you described, and the fcc ignored that history that led their predecessors to create enforce thesed principles, these protections, over the last almost 15 years. I dispute the notion that there is a long history of any type of discriminatory action. They were literally three or four e