Work led to the president announcement in november of the plan for internet regulation, a plan which the report said blindsided them right chairman wheeler for the compromise. And of course a few insiders were quizzed him about what was transpiring. Heres what a leader for the governmentfunded group fight for the feature had to say. We have been hearing for weeks from our allies that the only thing that can stop tom wheeler from moving ahead with this sham proposal to get Net Neutrality is if we could get the president to step in. So we did everything in our power to make that happen. And now we get to celebrate. Congratulations. And what the press has caught called opened the door to a plethora of special interest activates. Fight for the future free press and Public Knowledge just to name a few. And indeed even before activists were blocking determine straggly late last year, some of them had met with executive branch officials. What about the rest of the American People . They certa
Thank you for the opportunity to address you at what is a critical moment for the future of internet. More than anything else, the action that you take today will preserve the permissionless invasion invasion. Let me explain. The web was invented 25 years ago. To people and let them run on computers which were connected to the internet. All that was necessary for those computers were plugged in to internet. They were then communicating. Didnt have to ask anybodys permission. Frome1 this, the worldwide web spread to reach all the corners of the global and connected world, enabling hundreds of billions of dollars of Economic Growth and enhanced free speech and democracy around the world. Didnt have to get permission from anybody to introduce a thing. I didnt have to pay isp and special fees. I didnt have to convince c should be let through. If it would be good for their business. I didnt have to worry they would block it because it was compete competing with the businesses they have. So,
Cspan, cspan2, cspan radio and cspan. Org. Bob erlich was in henniker, New Hampshire where he held a town hall meeting at new england college. The former governor who is considered a president ial run in 2016 discussed political discourse in washington the importance of compromise and his views on marriage. This is just over an hour. [multiply conversations taking place] [multiply conversations taking place] [multiply conversations taking place] good afternoon, everyone, on behalf of the center for sieving engagement i mind like to welcome you to the new england college. I am a Political Science major and it is my pleasure to introduce governor bob erlich. He has served as governor member of Congress State legislature and civil litigator. Most recently he advised clients on an array of Government Matters with focus on health care, finance and economic development. As marylands first republican governor in 36 years when elected he turned four billion in deficit into two billion in surpl
I do not ask this as a politician. As dakota was suggesting. I ask as one of so many mothers of a combat vet. When my son went off to war the first time as a teenager, i was confronted with the same reality that all the other moms have to face and just realizing, i was not going to be there to help, to protect. Moms cant be there when they hurt. I can pray, and i did and i do. But fewer things are more difficult than to kiss a child goodbye. Those first deployments is when a parent goes from calling him son to calling him sir. America hands over her sons and daughters in service with the promise they are going to be taken care of. Our troops are promised no one will be left kind. They are promised that a grateful nation will spare no expense to patch them up and bring them back to health when wounded. And now they come home wounded. Too many broken in body and spirit. Well we their mothers and their fathers and their house and their weives, we are here to collect on the promises made.
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] welcome. Thank you for coming. Todays briefing is about the Internet Committee titled Circuit Court decision on fcc open internet roles is it random or is it a law. Such short notice the decision came on tuesday. Weve been awaiting it and wanted to do a briefing as close to the decision as possible. This is the congressional internet caucus advisory committee. We take no position on legislation or regulation but the proposition that the internet is extremely important and that we should try to insure a sound Decision Making so what we try to do in these meetings is any issue that affects the internet, we try to have a balanced perspective. A lot of perspectives on the issue and have a collegial issue on the topic. The socalled Net Neutrality rules lend itself to that type of debate. Hosted in conjunction with the congressional internet caucus and its cochairs, congressman bob goodlat