Telecommunications giant the federal Circuit Court in washington ruled wednesday the fcc did not have the Legal Authority to enforce the rules online. The decision may open the door to the possibility your Internet Provider could treat data differently. For instance netflix accounts for 2 3. Should Internet Providers be able to provide for that . Or should Internet Providers keep the nose out of their data. Larry downs is a professor for law, Research Fellow and author. He testified on the question of Net Neutrality. Does the fcc have the authority to be regulating the internet and then the second issue is should the internet be regulated . Lets start with whichever one. The first one is easy. The court said congress is not given the authority to regulate the internet. Without the fcc it is done quite well. The court did say they had some authority, far less than what they tried to execute. And then there was paperwork issues. If you change your definitions about certain things it does
I think at that point, pakistan will accept that they have given up the notion that the taliban. Re going to take over i think pakistan now feels that afghanistan threatens pakistan. I will say that pakistan would lower its objective and except some kind about, as long as there is some type of taliban and role. Be toitical thing will have an empowered, fairly elected government supported by the supported Afghan People that can rectify the society. That is critical to discussing the things they talk about. I appreciate hearing the words thank you because that is something president karzai never seems to be able to say. With reference to your own view, what would you want the united to help you achieve the type of elections that the Afghan People will have faith and . I will endorse what he said about the elections, but to add on that, one of the critical things is the type of messages that both the afghan Political Leadership and the public receives starting with raising the bar higher
Political joining us. The meeting . Of it sounds like harry reid is ready to go forward with the Nuclear Option, to change the senate rules by 51 votes, rather than the normal threshold of 67 votes. The higher threshold is usually your usually set to make it harder to occur. He says he is so frustrated with the use of the Majority Party to block legislation moving forward that he will invoke this very unusual procedure to change the rules by 51 votes. We want to vote change the filibuster rules so no longer 60 votes will be required to facinge a filibuster president ial nominees for executive branch positions. Would only affect executive , noth decisions traditional nominees, not legislation, it wants to move forward so that no longer can a senator block a nominee for epa, Defense Department, by requiring , 61 votesinstead would be required, a majority of the senate. Majority lent leader reid wants to move forward, what would the next step the in the senate . There was going to be a jo
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Filed on perez to be secretary of labor and further, if cloture is invoked, the Senate Immediately proceed to a vote on the confirmation of the nomination. I would add parenthetically that would eliminate the post 30 hours assuming cloture were invoked on the very controversial nominee, perez, to be secretary of labor. Further, the senate vote on the cloture motion filed on calendar number 98, mccarthy, to be epa director. And if clotures invoked, the senate proceed to vote on the confirmation of the nomination. Also eliminating the 30 hours postcloture if cloture is invoked on mccarthy. And i might add that the Ranking Member, the Environment Committee supports cloture on the mccarthy nomination, thereby its reasonable to assume that cloture would be unvocked. Invoked on what is for a lot of our members, including myself, a very controversial nomination. I further ask that the consent that the senate then vote on the cloture motion filed on number 178, this is someone named hockberg,