[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] this hearing will come to water. Welcome, welcome. Today the committee convenes to broadband during the covid19 pandemic. I extend my appreciation for my colleagues attentions attendance and participation. I welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses. Mr. Y we will hear from stephen barry, president and chief executive officer of the competitive cares organization and the chief executive officer of the Rural Broadband association. Mr. Gene kimmelman, Senior Advisor on public knowledge, who will be appearing, testifying remotely. Jonathan spalter, of u. S. T and ceo broad,. Covid19 crisis has changed life dramatically for almost every american. As the administration and the centers for Disease Control and prevention encourage social distancing to prevent spread of the virus, normal activities like work, school, Healthcare Services are increasingly t
Colleagues attentions attendance and participation. I welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses. Mr. Y we will hear from stephen barry, president and chief executive officer of the competitive cares organization and the chief executive officer of the Rural Broadband association. Mr. Gene kimmelman, Senior Advisor on public knowledge, who will be appearing, testifying remotely. Jonathan spalter, of u. S. T and ceo broad,. Covid19 crisis has changed life dramatically for almost every american. As the administration and the centers for Disease Control and prevention encourage social distancing to prevent spread of the virus, normal activities like work, school, Healthcare Services are increasingly taking place online. This has caused a huge uptick in the use of broadband. One estimate shows average Broadband Usage is up by 47 since the pandemic began. Good news is that theres been some progress in connecting all americans. The fcc has recently released broadband deployment report shows
New data and uncertainty over tomorrows opec meeting. Well be leave in vienna with the latest porsche is unveiling a new model today. Ceo will be joining us in a first on cnbc interview coming up but while the dow and s p started off the session with alltime highs yet again, the nasdaq has been falling all day and Companies Like netflix, apple, amazon, theyre seeing big declines bertha combs has the news. So are the big tech cap stocks, investors calling it the great rotation today theyre taking profits on names that have run up so fast look at autodesk thats a case in point today, trading at alltime highs yesterday, tumbling on an earnings missed also announcing a 13 work force layoff, thats sending some jitters as well in tech. The biggest source of pain though overall is the sector now the Semiconductor Index has been leading the charge to alltime highs here at the nasdaq the index closing at a record high led by micron and invidia, both doubled this year invidia today seeing a chal
Slaughter to discuss her exciting new books the chessboard and the web the most recent of several books she has written she is currently the president and ceo of new america. And from the public and International Affairs those are just some of the past assignments in the illustrious career. So as the discussion and you will see they are both a practitioner as will as a theorist or a teacher or professor of International Affairs so why now we jump right in and tell us about the pieces of the book and why you decided to write the book now . Guest it is great to talk to you and reflect on our experiences as Foreign Policy practitioners ive been writing about networks since 1994 so as a scholar i have them looking at how the world was increasing from a the hierarchical organizations like the imf or world they can increasingly with government officials and central bankers or finance ministers as a humanitarian disaster playing an Important Role and so if you chair the situation rooms to kno
Slaughter to discuss her exciting new books the chessboard and the web the most recent of several books she has written she is currently the president and ceo of new america. And from the public and International Affairs those are just some of the past assignments in the illustrious career. So as the discussion and you will see they are both a practitioner as will as a theorist or a teacher or professor of International Affairs so why now we jump right in and tell us about the pieces of the book and why you decided to write the book now . Guest it is great to talk to you and reflect on our experiences as Foreign Policy practitioners ive been writing about networks since 1994 so as a scholar i have them looking at how the world was increasing from a the hierarchical organizations like the imf or world they can increasingly with government officials and central bankers or finance ministers as a humanitarian disaster playing an Important Role and so if you chair the situation rooms to kno