Objection. Mr. Udall thank you, madam president. Madam president , i rise in opposition to the renomination of mr. Ajit pai to the federal Communications Commission. Mr. Pai both as f. C. C. Commissioner and now as chairman has not been a vigorous watchdog for free speech. He has not put the peoples right to information first. In fact, he has put corporate interest first. And he has opposed policies outright that ensure underserved communities have access to essential technology. I strongly oppose his renomination to the commission. Lets begin with his responsibility to guard First Amendment rights. President trump has relentlessly attacked nbc, cbs, abc, cnn, the new york times, and the washington post. He called these established and esteemed news outlets fake news. He even called them the enemy of the people. Earlier this year in february during a Senate Commerce hearing, this was an oversight hearing, i asked chairman pai point blank whether he agreed with the president that these
Fcc commissioner Mignon Clyburn is our guest on the communicators this week. Welcome, commissioner. Thank you for coming back. This is the first time in your service on the federal medications that even in the minority and about five months. How is that different than the previous eight years . Very interesting. I often think of myself playing offense and defense. So, playing the entire field it has been a little exhausting but exhilarating at the same time. I havent changed. The things that i care about in terms of consumers have been first and foremost in our minds when it comes to policy and when it comes to my interests and when it comes to serving them. That hasnt changed. Things are different, youre right. Theres been a couple of more than a couple of two ones. The essence is the same. We will get into those issues in just a minute but june 30t june 30th, is coming up and is a significant date because thats when your commission and. Well, if i were to look at the calendar, one wo
On thetop of the bottom line profit hit by a fine from the European Union that Conference Call is kick off now. Gene munster is manning the red phone. Josh lipton is out in San Francisco. He spoke with alphabets ceo, so, josh, we kick off with you. Melissa, digging into this report briefly here, a couple numbers stand out, one is revenue from Google Properties 18. 4 billion, thats search, youtube. Talking to Aaron Kessler of raymond james, obviously as he points out, thats the highest marg margin businesses for the company up 20 pk he also pointed out reasons for concern in the report. Traffic acquisition costs, what the company is paying their partners for mobile traffic. Obviously when thats rising, can pressure overall margins a couple other key lines here that stand out, other revenues remember, that includes cloud, play, hardware, that clocked in at 3. 1 billion. And other bets revenues. Everything from selfdriving cars to nest Smart Thermostats operating loss of 772 million final
Able to hear from you in advance of this hearing. The fcc has not been reauthorize since 1990 and its current appropriation is over 400 30 million. It is charged with the administration of the Communications Act and of the statutes by to the functioning of our key medications policy. We must reexamine the Core Functions of the commission and Research Culture of humility that was lacking under the regulatory cloud left by chairman wheeler picked the sec plays a vital role in our increasingly Technology Dependence society. The subcommittee has never released a discussion draft for consideration. I would be remiss in not discussing Net Neutrality, the commissions decision in 2153 reclassify internet as a public utility was a power grab laced with irony of suffocating the most innovative part of our economy with a 1930s era law. This gave been meaning to the term progressive. Reply comments to the commissions nprm argue august 18. Chairman pai, we hope you are keeping that handy because it
Objection which obtains today. I go back backed into didnt even have youtube. All sorts of things we could do today. But the other notable thing, this is my reading of the constitutional convention. Other people may have read this differently, but in all of the discussions that take place among the framers as they are going back and forth to try to figure out how to choose a provision evidently know and they keep changing their minds, there is never, a concept that the people have a right to vote is never invoked. Its never mentioned. So were talking about a very different political era. Its good that original intent is not something that we have relied upon around here. Textually, it is important to note that the words right to vote now appear live times in the constitution. In the 14th a minute, section two. In the 15th amendment and the 19th minute and the 24th unlimited and the 26th amendment. So its precisely because of the legacy of slavery and racism at all sorts of stuff that t