And charging extra for socalled fast lanes to any websites or apps. News conferences by the individual fcc commissioners followed the session [inaudible discussion] good morning. Welcome to the may 2017 open meeting of the federal Communications Commission. Please introduce our agenda this morning. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Good morning to you and good morning, commissioners. For todays meeting youll hear a presentation and six items for your consideration. First, you will hear a presentation on the Public Safety and Homeland Security bureaus final report on its investigation into the faulty 911 outage at t mobility experiences march 8, 2017. Second youll consider a notice of proposed rulemaking that would both facilitate deployment of and russ regulatory burdens on three times of fixed Satellite Service earth stations authorized to transmit while inr motion. Earth stations on vessels, vehicle mounted earth stations and earth stations aboard aircraft. Third, you will consider a report a
Sullivan and that 11 am voting on whether to move forward with that nomination with a simple majority needed to advance. A confirmation vote possible tomorrow unless senators agree to hold that the earlier and sent recessing for up to 215 for their weekly party lunches. Yesterday the Senate Confirmed the longestserving governor in us history to be the next ambassador to china. Iowa republican terry branstad. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, the fountain of every blessing, we praise you for your loving kindness and tender mercies. We are astounded by your wonderful works to the children of humanity. Lord, we are incomplete without you. Fill our thirst for the knowledge of the sacred with your divine wisdom. Today, inspire our lawmakers to do your will. May they bring love where there is hate, light where there is darkness, and hope where there is despair. Lord, use them to transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrow
Aint s Saint Andrews and rick snyder in michigan at the community college, saturday night at 8 00 on cspan and cspan. Org. The federal Commission Voted 21 to start the process of repealing regulations on Internet Service providers known as Net Neutrality rules. The repeal would allow providers like verizon and comcast to slow tract to some websites and apps. Well show you that two hour public hearing from the start. Welcome, to the 2017 open hearing. Madame secretary, will you please introduce your agenda this morning. Thank you, good morning to you. You will hear a presentation and six items for your consideration. Final report on its investigation into the faulty 911 outage at t mobility experience on march 8th, 2017. Second, you will consider a proposal of reducing regulatory on the three types of fixed Satellite Service of earth stations authorize to transmit files in motion. Vehicle mounted and earth stations and earth stations aboard aircraft. Third you will consider a report ord
I think we will go out and start. By Ranking Member senator could still be here shortly. I will go and make my Opening Statement and begin testimony. Thank you all for being here this afternoon. I appreciate it. Id like to thank you for your comments last week about what we need to strike. Today marks the first hearing in the Financial Services and general government to committee for the 115 congress. This is also my first hearing in a new role as chairwoman of the subcommittee. As they began the budget request, welcome our witnesses. Fcc chairman and commissioner clyburn and michael are rightly. We look forward to hearing from you all about the budget request and the work you are doing to carry out the agencys mission. Fiscal year 28 team, requesting a total of 322 million. While funding is offset by fees that do not minimize or need to ensure that the agency is operating effectively in the funds are being sent responsibly. This is especially important since these are passed on direct
Are open for business, we are working, were doing the public work, work very well, i think. So there are two current members, im the acting chairman. Im a republican. And i have my colleague, terrell mcsweeny, whos a democrat. But the thing to remember about the ftc is we are generally a bipartisan agency. Were an enforcementoriented agency, so our rules allow us to have a quorum with as few as two commissioners, so that isnt affecting our work. But, of course, we have to Reach Agreement to take action. Fortunately, most of the work that the ftc does is very much focused on real harms to consumers, fraud, we review mergers, we review antitrust issues, and those are areas where there is a lot of agreement. The other thing thats happening, you know, under hi leadership as chairman, ive asked staff to go back and take a look at some of the things that were doing that maybe need to be better focused or perhaps have a more limited impact on business or are our civil investigative demands to