We will continue to update you as more details become available. The senate is out this week so on cspan2 we are going to bring live coverage of a number of events including a house hearing at 10 30 that examines the future of why your Communication Networks and how Technological Advancements could impact consumers and businesses. Host host welcome back. We are joined by congressman joe barton, a republican member of the house energy and commerce committee. Thank you for joining us. Later this week the committee will have the first hearing on the web site healthcare. Gov. Tell us what are your biggest questions . Guest my biggest question is why they put that much money into something that flat out doesnt work. Theres been lots of socalled which is over the years and other web sites in the private sector, but weve never had a website that almost no one gets through the first time without any problems. So we have the contractors this their stay and the next thursday the secretary Kathle
Time because we saw the migration of language and by cleaning up of the definitions so i think we do have some ability to use that. I go back to conversations i have with the ceos now because one of the missions is in the Community Bank environments to ensure that Language Access for their boards and part of that mission, one question i get a lot in the observation is when i listen to you use scare the hell out of me and then i go back to the institution and they say everything is okay and that shouldnt be the end of the conversation or at the beginninf the conversation but whats important is that question wasnt even necessarily being asked sufficiently within the Senior Management suites of the organizations and so when you get to the point where as i said before where do those eyeballs gravitate towards, they might gravitate towards regulation that regulation in a lot of cases can be quite technical in nature so what is going to be some overlying documented that a manager can look at
And foreclose shures were mounting. When president came into office our economy was shrinking at an. 3 annual rate. The American People fought their way back from the brink. Cause of our nations resill resilience, we have seen our deficit shrink. Businesses have added more than two million jobs over the last year alone. Manufacturing has expanded while to Housing Market continues improve. At the same time our deficits are half what they were a few years ago. Even though progress has been made, our economy is not erforming at full steam. The pace of growth in hiring has ot been consistent enough, and the Government Shutdown and the debt ceiling impasse were examples of that brinksmanship. A manufactured crisis, but a crisis nonetheless. Even though we do not know the full exfent of the damage, we know it slowed Economic Growth and job creation in this quarter. What we should learn from this searing experience is that washington politics should not hurt workers and our economy nor be use
Fib director james comey said today that encryption features built into new cell phones by google and apple could hurt Law Enforcement efforts. Thats next on cspan2. Then a conversation on voter i. D. Laws and their potential impact on the midterm elections. Later, a debate for colorados senate seat. Wisconsin is known as americas dairy maintained because we make the most cheese and the beseeches. The industries developing in wisconsin from what was a homestead cheese, where everybody each farm family made cheese for their own use. It was recognized that we had an ideal environment for raizy dairy cattle, and cheese was really just a way to take that perishable product, before refrigeratorration, would only last three days. If you make cheddar cheese, can last for a decade. This is late 1880s when the industry got started in wisconsin. Generally farmers in the neighborhood would form a cooperative. They would build a Cheese Factory and they would hire a cheesemaker, and the cheesemaker
Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. And as we continue our series on the communicators talking with some of the Telecommunications Associations headquartered here in washington, week were joined by Shirley Bloomfield who is the head of the ntca, the Rural Broadband association. Shes here to talk about some of the legislative and policy issues that her association faces. Ms. Medical bloomfield, what ise ntca, first of all . Guest a National Trade association, and we represent 90 small local providers that are in pretty much every state in this country who provide what used to be, you know, just basic telephone service. Theyre now broadband providers. Theyve also become kind of the onestop shop Tech Service Providers for tear communities. They do video, wireless, data centers, they do whatever Technology Needs their communities actually require. So they actually represent their interests here in washington d.