Nd so long as it is not inconsistent with the rest of it. It gives a most any authority to the fcc. This is a broad expansion. I pose the question, what happens when an fcc not to their liking grabs the regulatory throttle. That means that amazon betsy and every other m internet based company should be prepared to meet its new regulator. Look no further than your fellow witnesses, mr. Powell and miss baker, former regulators who currently represent the regulated. We who are elected to write the law and set the communications policy. My priority is to protect consumers and the internet we rely upon. My priority is to encourage its expansion and to various segments of our population that are underserved and too often ignored. We have taken on complicated medications challenges and produced good legislative solutions. We are stood up to special interests and stood with the American People. The draft legislative proposal represents our good faith effort. Our committee will not ignore our r
That grew up here and americans we should welcome that if we start broadening that which is exactly what he did in his 2014 executive order that essentially i would be ignoring the law in a way that i think would be very difficult to defend legally, so thats not an option. And that is why the courts struck down or stayed implementation of the 2014 executive order. Thank you mr. President. I yield the floor. Next a discussion on governance and leadership in the world from the United States to europe to asia. Its part of a conference hosted by the Rand Corporation called set politics aside. Speakers include author Francis Fukuyama and former banking regulators sheila bair. This is an hour. Hello and welcome back. I am michael rich president and ceo of the Rand Corporation. The focus of the last session of course was the middle east Foreign Policy more generally bear also the middle east of courses or region several hundred Million People. Hardly any democracies in that region. In fact, a
Somehow congress hadnt acted enough or quickly enough or expansively enough to justify the extension of his authority under the constitution. But if i can ask my friend from maine another question to drill down on her earlier point it seems to me that the senator from illinois, the distinguished minority whip, he is making some suggestion that really what we are mad at is the people who benefit from this executive action which to my mind, could not be further from the truth. We all understand the aspirations of people who want a better way of life and opportunity, but isnt it true that as you have said and ill just ask you to repeat it perhaps or expand upon it. Isnt it true that when we all take an oath to uphold the constitution laws of the United States, whether youre the president or whether youre the senator, we have a sacred obligation to make sure that no branch including the president usurps the authority of another branch or violates those constitutional limitations . Ms. Co m
Same area. They too are concerned. Any sense, that may be a good thing. Their strength is going to be if they can act collectively. What the chinese are doing here, in one case, building airfields so that they can launch aircraft to do patrols and surveillance. Further exerted what they consider their sovereignty over the south china sea. It has been impressive in the last year or year and a half since they have been doing this. As they pursued drilling. Which has caused conflict with the vietnamese. This is a worrisome trend of the chinese because of the tensions it is going to create in the south china sea. They have been very aggressive about it. You have not only the kit bodhi be to build an airfield but weapon systems capability to build an airfield but also weapon systems. It will be interesting to see what they do. Our attention is on other parts of the world. This is really quite a major step on their part. I thank you for helping us out on it. One question and react in reactio
Preemption of state laws by an agency is going to survive a Court Challenge and were there other routes you considered . Were there other what . Other routes to reaching the goal . Routes. So as we laid out in the discussion, what were dealing with is a situation where the states said to the localities, you have the authority to do this. And then put in place barriers to keep them from exercising that. Section 706 explicitly says to us, take away barriers to broadband deployment. And so we did take away those barriers, but did not go to the overall state authority that in fact said to those folks you have the ability to do this. Jim with the l. A. Times. There have been a number of allegations both on capitol hill and by commissioner pai that president obama influenced improperly influenced this proposal. Did the president or anyone at the white house either dictate to or influence your proposal . Thanks for asking that question, jim. The president has been well known, on record, for a