Order. ,etter late than never sorry, everybody. The chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. The hearing is titled fostering the next generation of leaders setting members up for success. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. Take the case, i will not five minutes, because we are doing Something Different today. This committee sometimes likes to shake things up. Today, we are looking at ways to develop the next generation of leaders in congress, which is part of our community. We figured the best way to showcase the next generation of leaders were to feature this committees freshmen members actively participating in the work of this committee. We have all benefited from their unique perspectives as freshmen members, and representative timmons always gets here early, and his enduring patience has not gone unnoticed. Today, i yield to representative scanlon and representative timmons today. We like to finish up any opening rema
Cspan is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Host congressman bob latta is the Top Republican on the subcommittee on communications and technology, arguably the most significant subcommittee when it comes to technology and telecommunications in the congress. He is against this week on the communicators. Congressman latta, what has your subcommittee been up to . Guest the good news is for the american citizens whether on the telephone, we passed the robocall legislation. Thats significant because when you think of the almost 50 billion robocalls that are made every year into this country, its going to hopefully provide relief to the american citizens out there. Its important because a lot of people say one of the top issues people contact me about, and its also the top issue that the fcc and the ftc receive every year is about robocalls. People say to me i thought i signed up for this do not call list, what happened . Unfo
Republican on the subcommittee of communications and technology. The most significant subcommittee when it comes to technology and telecommunications in congress. He is our guest this week on the communicators. Congressman latta, what has your subcommittee been up to . Good news for the american citizens, we passed the robo call legislation. That is significant. When you think of the almost 50 billion rollcalls made every year into this country, it is going to hopefully provide relief to the american citizens. It is important, because in front of the top issues that people contact me about, it is also the top issue that the fcc year,e ftc receive every it is about robo calls. People say i thought i signed up for this do not call list, what happened . You signed up, but the calls are coming from overseas. There has been great work that has occurred on this. Not only in congress, but with the fcc and the carriers. Earlier this year, in the meetings i had with the fcc, they have call iden
The american citizens out there who are on the telephone that we passed the robo call installation and that is pretty significant because we think of the almost 50 billion robo calls made every year into this country is going to hopefully provide relief to the american citizens out there and its important because a lot of people say the top issue the people contact me about and its also the top issue that the fcc in the ftc receive every year about robo calls. People say to me i thought i signed up for this do not call list. Unfortunately, you signed up for it but these calls are coming in from overseas and so theres been great to work on this, not only in congress but at the fcc and the carriers out there because in order to share in the meetings ive had with the fcc what we will see if they have a [inaudible] shaken technology they will be able to say when that call originates to a new look at your phone you will know that that is who that call is coming from and it will not be spoof
Countering threats to free and open societies. This research this creature onthis researcher focused nonwestern immigrants into the society and defending the rights of muslim women. For more than six years, mr. Diamond talked about the rule of law and leads a program on democracy and mobile digital policy incubator. Senior fellowis a at the Hoover Institution. 26th assistant to the president for National Security affairs and served as an officer in the u. S. Army for 34 years before retiring as a Lieutenant General in june of 2018. The moderator for the panel is neil ferguson. Was a senior fellow at the center for European Studies at harvard where he serves to where he served for 12 years as a professor. Please welcome this group to the stage. [applause] mr. Ferguson good afternoon. Thank you for the introduction and thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for joining us on a beautiful afternoon where you could be out playing frisbee. I am excited to be moderating this distinguished panel. Wh