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Commission, we moved all of the length from analog to digital. So that was cable, broadcast, satellite. The satellites have been launched but the service had not yet begun. We came up with a Digital Television standards, radio standards. My First Commission meeting, we did band plan and we were just getting auction authority. We begin the first auction at which point they used the hand placards to bid on. It was an exciting time to be there, plus on top of all that we implemented the 1996 telecom act which dramatically changed the landscape by introducing competition in local telepathy and video. And also dramatically changed the landscape for broadcast, widening the ability to consolidate broadcast propertie properties. Host looking back 20 years later, did you get it right . Did the groundwork laid correctly . Guest some of the did. Keep in mind the other thing we did which is so important, and cspan can appreciate this greatly, is Childrens Television programming, three hour require
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And Childrens Hospital in philadelphia and saint johns, and i was hoping for a commit beyond the 100 million and i think we are getting Great Results and i will submit a question on that and now that im out of time as well as the treatment of foster care for giving foster parents a specialized training they need to take care of kids that have particular challenges but ill do that by way of a written question. But thank for your testimony and for being here and for your service. Thank you, senator. Thank you mr. Chairman and thank you madam secretary for your service. I would like to in a very short period of time see if we can cover four topics. New jersey and protection and number three autism coverage and number four the midnight rule. So let me first of all, before we go to that, i want to highlight key components of the president s budget proposeal that i believe are critical and important for the in my view the most important part of the population and that is the children and the
The man that we always count on to put place democracy front and center of everything. You know so well that since citizens united, the last two election cycles that have set records for money spent, including hundreds of millions of dollars from undisclosed sources, the bulk of this socalled dark money spend iingy outside groups that hide their donors go toward negative tv ads. We all know that. Would you recommend changes to the Communications Act to ensure that voters are informed about who exactly is behind these anonymous tv ads . And is there anything in your view that the fcc can do on its own without congressional intervention . I would recommend them enforcing the statute that we already have. If you take a close look at section 317, which has to do with sponsorship identification and which goes back even before the teleCommunications Act of 1934 was written, goes back to 1927, ensuring that listeners and viewers more recently know by whom they are trying to be persuaded wheth