James walter green, who has been nominated by the president to serve as u. S. Attorney for the middle district in louisiana. I was very pleased to recommend mr. Green to the president for his consideration. I strongly urge my colleagues to vote with me to confirm him today. He has served our country in a variety of capacities, most notably 20 years in military service. He has been involved in multiple deployments as the recipient of numerous military awards, including Defense Meritorious Service award, navymarine corps commendation medal, and the Iraq Campaign medal. Not only is he a strong patriot and Extraordinary Service to our country, but in addition, he has also served for 15 years in a variety of capacities in this office, supporting their work through republican and democratic administrations. He comes highly recommended by a broad Cross Section of individuals in my state, and im just really pleased the caliber of person that i was able to recommend, this kind of caliber, highc
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.
With other companies. But its a very important but. But in a level playing field, and its there where the fact that they not took pemex out of the budget, and the i would say excessive intrusion of the treasury in many of the decisions of pemex, trace from because some of those middle layers and high layers, are completely unhappy with that you see. Okay. You want and we want pemex to compete, let us compete. But do not put us in an unlevel playing field. If you if youre really make an assessment, i think that the big loser of the reform as it is is pemex. Paradoxically, because one would say that within the mind of the government strategically thinking they need to understand that they need pemex to be the dominant company for quite some time, some years, for the country and the sector to keep moving ahead. There is the other thing is impossible to imagine from day one to day two and the monopolys gone and Everything Else is done by somebody by somebody else. So, and that is not, in m