[applause] thank you are coming. Its my pleasure to introduce to you, commissioner michael bueller. He was appointed to the Security Commission by president obama and is sworn in an august 2013. He was delegated by President Trump to be in german in that capacity from january 23rd of this year to may 4th. His term expires in june 2018. Previously, dr. Pirowar worked at the sec in the office of Economic Analysis with the division of economic and risk analysis as an academic scholar from iowa state university. He was a professor of finance at iowa state university, earned a ba in Foreign Service in International Politics that can take an from georgetown and phd from penn state. Today we are not going to have a set presentation, but instead a formal question and answer format. Im going to ask mr. Pirowar a number of questions and then we will open it up to the audience so you all can participate in the discussion. Commissioner pirowar come with the new chairman of the securities and Excha
Talked about business regulations and their impact on the economy. The secs agenda and future priorities. From the heritage foundation, this is one hour and 20 minutes. Good afternoon. Welcome to our heritage foundation. Welcome to those of you joining us on our website or in house. We ask for a courtesy check to see that our various mobile devices have been turned off. Devices have been turned off. For those of you online, you can ask questions at any time by emailing speaker heritage. Org. Leading our conversation isine, you can david burton. Mr. Burton, before joining heritage, served as general counsel of the Small Business association, hes been chief Financial Officer and general counsel for the alliance for retirement prosperity and was as david partner at the argus group, a Public Policy and Government Relations firm. Please join me in welcoming david burton. David. David thank you for coming. It is my pleasure to introduce to you commissioner michael buehler. He was appointed t
Hearing is two hours 45 minutes. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] we would welcome to todays hearing on oversight of the federal communications commission. Should point out this committee has a jurisdiction over sports that last night the south dakota sate State University jackrabbits punch their ticket to the ncaa to a term i winning the tournament. I know im im getting gavel down by someone. That was applause . Thats thats what youre supposed to do. The last time we met i think was six years ago and a lot has changed. We have have a new fcc chairman in charge of the agency for whom this is their first fcc oversight hearing. At the last hearing is that i hope to see changes to have a commission operates. I urged people to treat fairly and respect the law, to be to be willing Test Congress for guidance and seek consensus where possible. While in the early days i am heartened because the new fcc leadership has he
Hearing is two hours 45 minutes. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] we would welcome to todays hearing on oversight of the federal communications commission. Should point out this committee has a jurisdiction over sports that last night the south dakota sate State University jackrabbits punch their ticket to the ncaa to a term i winning the tournament. I know im im getting gavel down by someone. That was applause . Thats thats what youre supposed to do. The last time we met i think was six years ago and a lot has changed. We have have a new fcc chairman in charge of the agency for whom this is their first fcc oversight hearing. At the last hearing is that i hope to see changes to have a commission operates. I urged people to treat fairly and respect the law, to be to be willing Test Congress for guidance and seek consensus where possible. While in the early days i am heartened because the new fcc leadership has he
We also have to think about security, cybersecurity with all of that connectivity. Finally making sure we dont exhaust i. P. Addresses. I think all of those things play into the internet of things and will be really important Going Forward. Guest the fact of the matter, youve got two agencies primary in this space, with us being Expert Agency when it comes to telecommunications platforms and the like and we have to recognize and i believe the way the world is evolving. Once upon a time you know, you two are still wedded to paper and i am, i am surprised i dont have it in front of me and thats where our information was stored. Now most of our information is not and so when you talk about these companies that have access to your personal information and seems like like every hour were hearing about a data breach. It is important for us to keep this working relationship with the ftc and other agencies to insure that there is a seamless line or means of protection for consumers by all the