For having the on. Theres five of us that are commissioners of the fcc. We serve staggered terms of every year one member of the commission is up for renomination and confirmation by the senate and the process continues a respective of the outcome of the election. For instance, my term runs through 2023 and i can hold over for a longer time potentially and im going to continue to serve regardless of the outcome of the election. Host and with Michael Orielly not being we nominated by the president , if there were a change in administration, you and commissioner pai would be the republican, correct . Guest yes. Michael orielly has her longtime both on capitol hill and at the fcc and his term expired a year and half ago and we are allowed to stay on until the end of this congress when were in that situation whether it is any one of us commissioners. Commissioner of violence term come to an end and commissioner pai, chairman pai and myself can continue to serve. Host now to the policies. I
Of the commission is up for renomination and confirmation by the senate and the process continues irrespective of the outcome of the election. For instance, my term runs through 2023 and i can hold over for a longer time potentially and i will continue to serve regardless of the outcome of the election. Host with Michael Oreilly not been renominated by the president if there were a change in administration you and chairman pai would be the republicans, correct . Guest yes, Michael Oreilly has served for a long time on capitol hill and at the fcc in his term expired about a year and a half ago and we are allowed to stay on until the end of this congress when we are in that situation whether it is any one commissioners so commissioner oreillys term will come to an end and commissioner piatt, chairman pai and myself can continue to ser serve. Host now to the policies, in an Election Year are you able to get things done . Guest fcc has been incredibly busy. I think this interview right her
And journalist matt life from 3 00 a. M. Eastern on sunday. Next, a look at the future of the internet and sec regulations. A policy cant conference in washington dc. This is an hour and a half. Ok, we are going to get started now. One minute. If everyone will take their seats, please. You become so quiet when i say that that i should not even wait the full minute. That is fantastic. We are going to get started now. I think that was a terrific session to get the conference started, talking about regulation more generally, although i knew there would be. I think throughout the day we are going to hear about that neutrality, or restoring internet freedom. Internet proceeding. Did hear a little bit during the previous session. Call this the allstars panel. I am not sure i came up with another name. We do have a group of allstars here. Inare going to the digging to Certain Communications issues. I want to do brief introductions. Everyone here has the brochure where we have got the full bio
Im randy may, president of the Free State Foundation and im pleased to welcome you to the Free State Foundations ninth annual Telecom Policy conference i want to extend an especially warm welcome to our cspan audience. Im going to selfconfessed, i may cspan junkie. Some of you may have heard me say that before. My mom may she rest in peace she always worried a told her that i was a cspan junkie never really knowing what i meant by that. Im always pleased and grateful when cspan is here. Welcome, to the cspan audience. This years annual Conference Follows on the heels of the 10th Anniversary Gala last december, so next year annual conference will be in double digits for this event, also. It confirms the old adage that time flies when youre having fun and i might add it when you busy as well. Almost every year i say some of you know this i say our annual Telecom Policy conference just keeps getting bigger, better and more impactful. Well, as long as it remains true im going to keep sayin
Probably muchs better than i am at getting everyones attention so we can do that again if need be. Thank all of you again for coming. It is a terrific turnout. You know, earlier i welcomed our cspan audience. I want to welcome them again. We are grateful cspan is here. Aim sure it has quite a bit to do with our next guest here. We are glad all of you are here. The chairman knows i do this because he has been here before. Illustriousn photography i could go on and on and on about it. We have it in the brochure. For those of you that are in the cspan audience, our brochure is on the website. Fcc chairmans bio in it. Just stayed what chairmanhere knows, pie served as a commissioner. How soon after the inauguration, was that two days later . A monday, january 23. Three days after. He was appointed by President Trump to be chair of the fcc. This, withouty is going to the offices you can read about. I think it is important. He has served in all three branches of government, spent a lot of ti