Chaplain conroy let us pray. Eternal god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. We come to the end of the week where we have given thanks for the heroism of the brave men who served as code talkers during the world wars. They answered the call to service of their nation at a time of great danger and we are grateful to them. Now we approach a week during which all americans will gather o remember who we are, a nation generously blessed not only by you, our god, but by courageous ancestors, faithful allies and the best good wishes of people everywhere who long for freedom. He difficult work of participative government and bless the members of this assembly and us all that we would be worthy of the call we have been given as americans. Help us all to be truly thankful and appropriately generous in our response. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Men. Mr. Faleomavaega the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to th
About Voter Suppression. That will be live started at 10 30 a. M. Eastern time. Two former you and whistleblowers take part in a discussion about human oversight according to an Associated Press report. Example ill examine reform. Cspan coming up at noon eastern. House republicans will vote on a replacement for eric cantor who lost his primary election last week. Here is more from capitol hill reporter. Host thanks for being with us this morning. What is on tap for congress . Biggest story obviously is on the house side with the leadership race that is going to be taking place. Some of the suspense seems to come out of it at least in the majority of Evan Mccarthy of california, the current whip. Take over ask to the majority leader following the primary defeat of eric cantor. The whip race itself to be more interesting. There is the jockeying that is still going on for the whip race. The itemhat will be that gets the most attention. Interestingly, it is a means that something that woul
New sources of revenue. I think theyre attacking both of those things, but to focus on the revenue side. I think, one, looking for new ways to delight and hold consumers. So if you look at comcast and its investment in the x1 platform, if you can make video on demand more attractive, easier to use, the interfaces more weblike and more delightful, number one, dont lose what you have, right . Innovate, keep what you have. You also see them taking advantage of broadband, right . That is a blessed source of new Business Opportunity for our industry. It is growing much faster. It still has a huge addressable market. It has good economics, and its a good business. The rapid change in telecommunications, Technology Advances and the future of the cable industry with National Cable and Telecommunications Association president Michael Powell tonight at 8 ian on the communicators on 8 eastern on the communicators on cspan2. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies 5 years ago 35 be years ago an
Expired but i think this has been an excellent panel. I think one of the things we should remember and you should take into effect is the fact that businesses wont have as many problems with prospective change and so i think if you look at whats happened i think you should look more at the perspective rather than going backwards. See and allow me to, as we move to International Trade morant bar for our music countries need to commit a gate to us in different character sets and their of any kind of registry or any kind of unique number makes it very difficult to give mr. Miller has money when we are saying dealing with trade with the Chinese Organization or a Russian Organization are anyone with a different language. Steve my time has expired mr. Chairman but thank you very much. You will be pleased to hear mr. Miller busted you have a good cheering section here today. This hasnt been near as hard as i thought it would be. We are not done yet. The dauman from mr. North carolina. Earlier
Satellite provider. And michael pollen, welcome back to the the communicators. Before we start with the issues, lets start with the Washington Post article from this weekend. It was an Internet Survey report they did saying that well over half of people say they abandoned their Cable Company if they could because of service. What is your response to that . Guest oh, is that a question . The first thing i would say is i think Infrastructure Companies provide these services are well aware of their longstanding challenges with the consumer and i think they have a duty and obligation to work hard to improve services. Bui think there is something somewhat challengine which is software, in the cloud, we are still a business that has to come in your home. We are still a business that has to install hardware and it has to function 310 hours a month which is what the average c consumer watches. It hasnt evolved for many years. Those problems need to be fixed. But i think the pain points lead to