First, strengthen competition, and advance innovation. At the top of that list is the agencys vote last month that will make it easier for consumers to buy a settop box or an app from someone other than their cable company. Is Technology Neutral proposal means that any company will be able to manufacture a settop box or design an app and sell it to consumers. Should a consumer wish to continue renting their settop box from their paytv provider, they can. No one is going to take it away from them. I dont know if theres that much of a love affair with a settop box i that if they wantt they can keep it. Very importantly the fccs proposal is an opportunity to enhance access to independent and minority programming giving consumers the ability to choose between settop boxes or apps with improved search functionality and user interfaces. Nearly 50 years ago the fcc took action to give Consumers Choice as to whether they wanted to rent their landline telephone from ma bell. Consumers not only
An economy that works for all of us, not just the 1 . [cheering] sanders but it is not just a corrupt Campaign Finance system that we are going to just a riggednot economy that we are going to program is also also a broken criminal justice that we are going to perform. [cheering] mr. Sanders it is not acceptable to me that we have more people in jail than any other country on earth. Not acceptable that we are spending 80 billion dollars per to put people in jail. The number of people are disproportionately africanamerican, latino, and native american. This campaign is about real criminal justice reform. This is about real Police Department reform. This campaign is about saying we are tired of seeing unarmed people, often minorities, shot by police. Mayor and ieen a have worked with Police Departments all over my state and Police Departments all over the country. And the truth is, the vast majority of Police Officers are honest and hardworking. But when a police officer, like any other
At least 250 people were hurt, including nine americans. Isis has claimed responsibility. Tonight, u. S. Authorities say the bombers identities arent clear, either because belgium authorities have not completed the ids or havent shared it with the u. S. Yet. The department of Homeland Security says theres no specific or credible threat to america, but security has been increased. Tomorrow, the Brussels Airport will be closed again while the investigation continues. During a raid at a house connected to the brussels suspects, investigators found a nail bomb, chemical product, and an isis flag. Just a short distance from one of the suspected ring leaders in the paris attacks last november. And investigators told cnn they believe the same Terror Network that was responsible for the responsible for the attack in brussels. Scott. All right, allison, thank you. Now just last year in the charlotte area, we saw three local cases of suspected home grown terror. All new tonight, experts told Eye
This is just over an hour. Thanks to everyone. Welcome. Great to see so many people here. Todays panel is entitled tale of two agencies. The overlapping jurisdiction of the fcc and ftc. My name is kelly donahue. Im a partner at a firm based here in washington d. C. And im also a member of the Federalist Society telecommunication and Electronic Media practice group. Before i get started i would like to make some brief introductions. From the federal communications commissioner, we have ajid. He was sworn in in 2012. And during his tenure he has focused on a Regulatory Environment that fosters competition and sought to remove uncertainty by creating clear modernized rules for the road. Previously the commissioner was a partner at the law firm of general and block and held positions in the general councils office. From the federal trade commission we have commissioner maurine olhausen. She has been a strong advocate of Government Transparency and Consumer Protection. Prior to joining the
Important topics. That is coming up in october. We have a giant delegation, both government and civil society, planning to go. If youre interested, youre all invited. Certainly lots of topics important to us will be discussed. So back to open data and the United States. I mentioned that in 2013, president obama issued an open order eo, executive order, for default information. Accompanying that was the open data policy, which we refer to as m1313 for you government nerds in the room. That directs agencies to manage information as an asset. And of course that doesnt happen overnight, right . For the last two years we have been working really hard with our agencies to move towards managing information as an asset. So i mentioned data. Gov. There is a screen shot of the data. Gov home page. 160,000 data sets across all sectors. The data. Gov site has incredible resources and is fantastic if you havent spent much time there. Another effort that we that the administration launched into quic