I think that alex and myself and a number of other people here are really primarily concerned about how were being informed. And i my personal opinion about pg es efforts to get information out is i havent known them to be particularly robust and so im wondering who is monitoring pg es approach to this . Is that your responsibility . How do we make sure theyre going to accomplish what they claim theyre going to accomplish in a comprehensive way . Our responsibility and ill speak for the larger Emergency Management Community Working with all of our partners. Working with nicole. So when the California Public Utilities Commission is doing their rulemaking process, we have made explicit requests that theyre going to be notifying individuals on their data bases, although as jan mentioned there are limitations to that. Theyre notifying public safety, which is including Emergency Management, fire, law, health and this is something throughout the bay area, we are asking pg e to do. Where we s
Of vladimiritic putin discusses russias influence in the u. S. And other countries. Washington journal is next. Returning to the Legal Framework that covered the president rom clintons announcement in 1996 to 2015 is not going to destroy the internet. It is not going to and the internet as we know it. High the fcc chair a jeep pai reversing regulations from the Obama Administration, known as Net Neutrality. Ahead on the washington journal, we will begin with your calls and comments, your reaction, and mean for you. All eyes on Congress Next week with the expected vote on that republican tax bill, but new concerns this morning from the hill. Com. Obstacles emerge as the gop races to the tax finish. We will be talking about all of these, but we want to get your reaction to the secs fcc cs repeal of Net Neutrality. If you support the measure, call us at 202 7488000. If you oppose, 202 7488001. We want to begin with what a of what Net Neutrality is and the impact of yesterdays 32 decision.
Our focus, Net Neutrality. Yesterdays fcc decision. We want to welcome randolph may, the president of the free state foundation, which is what . Free market think tank, freemarket think tank. Host and chris lewis, with a group of the foundation of Public Knowledge . We want to give you a sense of what is happening outside the fcc yesterday, as inside the commissioners were deciding the threeto ruling. [video clip] is it any wonder they want to shut it down, silence it, and stop it . Are we shocked . . Shocked . No. Are we going to let them get away with it . No. Post some of the demonstration outside of the fcc. Access isrnet overturned by the fcc. What you heard outside in this headline, randy may, is it accurate . Mr. May no. Really, what happened yesterday was going back to the type of fromnet regime that we had the beginning of the regulation of the internet until 2015. We had a return to what we called a light touch regulatory regime. In 2015, the Previous Commission imposed publi
Thethe l. A. Times, deregulation of at t, comcast, and other raw been providers is a dramatic advocation of authority that could usher in an thatnew era for Companies Offer services and content online and the people who rely on them. Theobvious problem is that broadband providers could pick winners and losers online. There is also a realistic fear that broadband providers would favor their own sites and services because some are doing it already. For example, at t effectively exempts video streams from its directv subsidiary from its wireless data caps. Congress these to clean up the pai that the fcc chair ajit is making. Right,s absolutely giving preferential treatment to some providers over others like you described, and the fcc ignored that history that led their predecessors to create enforce thesed principles, these protections, over the last almost 15 years. I dispute the notion that there is a long history of any type of discriminatory action. They were literally three or four e
[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. Good morning. Our team is here. The subcommittee on Capital Markets and gics will be hereby called to order. Todays hearing is entitled continued oversight of the secs offices and divisions. Without objection the chair authorizes a recess of the subcommittee at any time and also without objection, members of the Financial Service committee who are not members of the subcommittee may still set and participate in todays hearing. At this point i will now recognize myself for three minutes for an opening statement. So today the Sub Committee will continue efforts to conduct vigorous oversight of the ics sec and the individual offices that make up the sec. The last years are subcommittee has heard testimony from directors of trading and market, corporations by its enforcement and Investment Management division of the sec. These hearings have allowed us to take a thorough look at the agencys operations, rulemaking agenda, enforcement practice