Shinki in today. Im literally convinced of that. I will have spent 16 years in congress and i continue to be disappointed every day at the lack of foresight, the lack of judgment, the lack of longterm thinking and the lack of critical decisionmaking that occurs. Senior officials from comcast and Time Warner Cable were asked about the effect their proposed merger could have on cable and broadband consumers. The proposed 45 billiondollar deal needs to be approved by the federal Communications Commission and the Justice Departments antitrust division. Senator Patrick Leahy chairs the Senate Judiciary committee. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] [inaudible] all took the oath. And i welcome everybody here. Im going to be the chair and Ranking Member of the committee with jurisdiction was senator klobuchar in senator lee taking over the hearing at some point during the morning and i appreciate the work both of them have done in getting us here. The original business that cable industry d
Largest Cable Companies in the country, presents unique issues. From my perspective, while the Companies Service areas dont overlap, this cant not be our only focus of our discussion today. The combined company would control about 30 of the Pay Television market and 40 of the wire line broadband market with some estimates putting it at 50 . Its size and scope would give it the power to affect prices, service, and content offerings throughout the industry. And the future of online video competition. There are a number of critical questions that we need to ask. First, whats in this merger for consumers . Comcast has already said theyre not promising that their consumers will pay less or that their bills wont increase less quickly. What benefits do consumers stand to gain that they would not have gained without the merger . And do they outweigh the potential harms that could result if the merger is approved . This merger is also revoont for consumers who are outside of comcast and Time Wa
I do not see American Travel as some kind of a reward for Good Behavior have the cuban government. We are unlikely to see that. It is finally a gettough policy with the cuban government. If i may say, the fy 2014 languages clear about the purpose and authorizations of these programs as well as which agency should be in the lead for their implementation. We intend to follow the law and that case and transition some of those issues to the National Endowment for democracy. The larger policy debate here, but i want to come back to assuring you that we believe our implementation and passed with this program has been consistent, that these are not covert, these have been publicly notified a number of times. Thank you, senator. Administrator, do you conduct Internet Access programs in other countries in the world . We do. At the direction of specific language in the congressional do you have an idea how many of those are . Part of what we do everywhere around the world, and Internet Access is
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