Recently visited puerto rico to assess the impact these hurricanes have had and continue to have on americans. This committee has been conducting oversight of the federal response to the recent hurricanes since shortly after harvey made landfall in texas. Unfortunately, i expect that our work here will continue for years to come. The committees jurisdiction involves not just Public Health issues but rebuilding the electrical grid, addressing environmental cleanup and restoring telecommunications to name only a few. The people of puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands continue to face a long road to recovery and many are living without power and Running Water. I believe we are going to be joined today by representative Jennifer Gonzalez from puerto rico, someone who knows all too well about the difficult challenges her home is facing. Thank you for being here at this important hearing. From coordinating overall response to insuring that individuals have the medical treatment they need
You were chief of staff during the last shutdown in 19951996. What was that like . It was really tough. It was very hard and required us to do a lot of planning prior and cleanup. My favorite story if i can tell you the story from it. Iere was a group of asians think indonesian who came to visit reed hundt and i. They had to walk up eight flights of stairs because he elevate elevator was not work. They were out of breath and they said, what the heck is going on . Reed said the legislative branch decided to shut off the executive branch. They started laughing. They said not country it is the opposite. A message. Lly is the world thinks were crazy when we do things like this. The market things we are crazy. It has a longterm effect on the economy which is very negative. 38harold furchtgottroth, employees of the fcc were considered essential for this past shutdown. Lostdoes the work that got in this 16 days . There were several activities that the commission does that was not done. 1700 o
Close to old media, to a lot of different places in old media not just broadcast licensees. So need to be careful to balance. Theres no balance here. It says requires on air identification of the sponsors of advertisement. So does that mean you are a no . There are already both fcc rules and fcc rules regarding these sorts of things. So all the mouse print and the quick fast talk at the end of ads cover all of that. We just came to more than a billion dollars, probably two to 3 billion of outside ads from these undisclosed sources. So this is not a matter of, its not an issue in front of the public. Its here. Its right now. What about you, ms. Clyburn . I will look forward to working with you if there is anything that we have or have not done, or that you identified as deficient. We moved a long way in moving information that stations were previously keeping on premises to the airwaves. It may be opportunity for investigative work and the like of more clear. Again, if there is anything
On Tuesday April 18, FTC Chair Khan, and Commissioners Bedoya and Slaughter spent almost three hours responding to criticism and compliments before its House oversight.