The tech the tech and Telecom Industries agree on a few regulatory matters. The internet is not the telephone network, and you cannot apply the old rules of telecom to the knew rules of internet. Three weeks three weeks ago three regulators turned their back on that consensus i i believe the internet and its users will ultimately suffer for it. The debate illustrates the importance which makes it all the more amazing that congress has not reauthorized. Since then representative marks bill was passed a quarter century ago. The situation i i intend to rectifying this congress. Todays hearing marks the beginning of the commerce communitys efforts to write and pass legislation to reauthorize. Contentious matters like title to divide the membership of this committee reauthorization is an area where i believe we can and should Work Together. It should not be a partisan goal. Both sides of the aisle have common sense ideas to make the agency more responsive to the needs of consumers, congress
Budget to as proposed. Yes. And just to add cca perhaps is winding down but another thing that lafco can decide to do that means the budget is based on those assignment that lafco is working on the projects could you know be the higher budget or the same level of funding maybe needed to depending on the direction our commission gifdz lafco gives itself. Through the chair if i can make one point clear well include billable hours with the clerk its the expectation that the choofa will remain fulltime and he will indicate which hours hes spending cca and i understand where youre coming from. Well, i think i get that i know well continue down that path im expressing in the future based upon the amount of workload for this position things may change thank you, thank you commissioner crews i had a followup question supervisor breeds as a fulltime executive director through this budget process i see sort of Going Forward this is something ill put on the radar i make sure we have assignments a
Pretty telling example of what the state of competition is there. So, i think that the publishers would be able to begin to act like that. Because they have similar levels of market concentration and for partial withdrawals i think the danger with partial withdrawals over just disbanding the Consent Decrees entirely is that we have seen how the pros and ascap act when they think they can partially withdraw and it resulted in a lot of competition problems and my concern is that if the doj was to then say have you seen that now you can partially withdraw it could be even in add ver tently be seen. Mr. Miller i really appreciated your testimony. Just as a reminder of the creative individuals who are in many ways at the beginning of this conversation, although miss griffin reminds us consumers are critical. Theres a lot of different folks involved. A lot of different stage but mr. Miller, not all song writers want to have some of their Performance Rights pulled out of pros and do you agree
Lo this distinction between islamist and nonislamist is really simplification. Were talking about multiple communities, ideological ethnic and town based communities that have banded together against common enemies. It is a incredibly complex civil war. If i was to point to one dividing line in libya that i see is sufficiently explanatory that helps us understand this conflict, it is really the split between the old order, the old officer class, the old technocrats, old regime and younger what i would call revolutionary camp. Some of this revolutionary camp are, in fact islamists some are islamist fighting groups that had ties to al qaeda. Some are brotherhood. But i think that is the real dividing line. Where we are stuck right now is in a vicious cycle of mutual demonization and wild exaggeration. On the one hand you have the camp in the east that is led by general heftar, there is an excellent profile of him in the new yorker this week. That is sort of using the counterterrorism car
And its latest order has glaring legal flaws that is sure to keep the fcc mired in litigation for a long time. Turning to the designated entity program. The fcc must take immediate action to end its abuse. What once was a wellintentioned Program Designed to help Small Businesses has become a playpen for corporate giants. The recent aws3 auction is a shocking case in point. Dish, which has annual revenues of 14 billion and a market cap of over 34 billion holds an 85 he can witd stake in two companies that are claiming 3. 3 billion in taxpayer subsidies. That makes a mockery of the Small Business program. The 3. 3 billion at stake is real money. It could be used to underwrite over 585,000 pell grants, fund School Lunches for over 6 million children or incentivizing the service of 100,000. It denied them spectrum licenses they would have used to give Rural Consumers a competitive wireless alternative. In my view, the fcc should quickly adopt a further notice of proposed rulemaking so we c