Communicators this week is a key member of congress when it comes to telecommunications policy. Mike doyle is a democrat from pennsylvania, chair of the energy and commerce subcommittee on communications and technology. Congressman doyle, the subcommittee is key to telecom policy, isnt it . Representative doyle it sure is. It is the Key Committee in congress that deals with telecommunication policy. A lot of interesting issues come before the committee, and more to come. Peter we are about to cover those in the next halfhour, but i want to start with news this week, the fcc declaring huawei zte corporations to be National Security threats. Representative doyle that is one of the reasons you saw the bill we passed in the energy committee. Now we are just waiting for appropriators to put money in it. It is going to take 1 million to 2 million to assist Smaller Companies that want that equipment, to make them whole so they can remove the equipment and put other equipment in. We have been
Pennsylvania and is chair of the energy and commerce subcommittee on communications and technology. Congressman doyle, that subcommittee is really key to telecom policy, isnt it . Guest it sure is but it is the Key Committee in congress that deals with telling mitigation policies and a lot of interesting type of issues with more to come. Host we will explore some of those in this next half hour but i want to start with some news that came out this week which is the sec declaring while way and is et corporations to security threats which what is your view of that . I think there is some validity to that and that is one of the reasons why you saw the bill we passed in the energy and Commerce Committee with greg and myself which is, now were just waiting for the appropriators to put some money in it because we estimated it will take one, 2 million to assist the Smaller Companies that fought that equipment to make that whole so we can remove the equipment and put the other equipment in. We
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Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Congressman mike doyle is chair of the energy and commerce subcommittee on communications and technology. One of the key policy makers when it comes to Telecommunications Policy. Congressman doyle, in this past subcommittees your accomplished when it comes to Telecommunications Policy . We have been very busy on the communications and technology subcommittee. Tomorrow, we will be on the floor with stella. Hasthing that the senate had a hard time marking up a bill. We were able to market up in my subcommittee in full committee. We will have that on the floor tomorrow in the suspension calendar. We look to pass it tomorrow and get it to the senate. We have already donor robo calls. The issue americans have wanted us to do something about. We passed the amended house bill. Thats over in the senate. We are waiting for the senate to take action on that. Year, weier in the passed our Net Neutrality bill that sits over in the senate. We are currently