Preemption of state laws by an agency is going to survive a Court Challenge and were there other routes you considered . Were there other what . Other routes to reaching the goal . Routes. So as we laid out in the discussion, what were dealing with is a situation where the states said to the localities, you have the authority to do this. And then put in place barriers to keep them from exercising that. Section 706 explicitly says to us, take away barriers to broadband deployment. And so we did take away those barriers, but did not go to the overall state authority that in fact said to those folks you have the ability to do this. Jim with the l. A. Times. There have been a number of allegations both on capitol hill and by commissioner pai that president obama influenced improperly influenced this proposal. Did the president or anyone at the white house either dictate to or influence your proposal . Thanks for asking that question, jim. The president has been well known, on record, for a
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
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.
Disagree with the majority of this panel on the socalled open internet rule. And i appreciate you doing it cheerfully but also forcefully. And i want you to help us understand the reasons that you have given procedurally and substantively under the statute. As to why this decision is violative of requirements and violative of the Communications Act. Senator, thank you for the question. I could go through all 67 pages but ill abbreviate it for the sake of the panel and for everyone watching. In short there are problems with process and substance. My view is the agency failed to comply with the administrative procedure act. In terms of giving public fair notice and an opportunity to comment on the proposal it adopted. Heres the indisputable truth. The fcc never proposed title 2. It adopted a proposal in may of 2014 that was based on section 706. Through the course of the summer it was wide reported that section 706 was the lead proposal. Tlart was reported that the hybrid proposal based