Neutrality. Your colleague, henry waxman, recently wrote to the fcc asking it to be reclassified as title ii. Whats your reaction to that . Guest well, i respect henry i a lot, obviously, but hes wrong. Theyre trying to use an old law passed back in the 1930s for an industry that is in the 21st century. Its been proven over and over again that the best solution to the allocation issues and usage issues is an open, transparent market with appropriate oversight by federal and in some cases state and local government. We have a booming internet, we have a booming telecommunications system, and by and large, its because in the last 20 Years Congress and various president s have adopted more and more open, marketbased policies towards telecommunications. So for henry or the fcc to try to use an old, old almost 100yearold law to regulate the internet, in my opinion, is just, frankly, platte wrong. Flat wrong. Host if the fcc does reclassify broadband as a title ii entity, would congress have
In washington d. C. As part of the United States senate youth program, sunday night fa8 00 p. M. Pacific on e1cspans q a. On wednesday a panel looks at trends in Health Care Costs. Looking at the role of the Affordable Health care act in the slowdown of health care in the last few years. This was put together by the alliance for healthc reform and the kaiser foundation. Good afternoon. I am marilyn sarafeeney with the alliance of health reform. Along with senators carter and blunt, i would like to welcome you to todays briefing on the subject of Health Care Costs. I would also like to thankw3 our partner in this briefing, the Kaiser Family t foundation and we have with us today as my comoderator drew altman who is the founder of the kaiser foundation. Our Mission Today is to try to take some of the mystery out of Health Care Costs. Our experts are goingt to explain the trends, the prospects moving forward, what is driving Health Care Costs, and what policymakers and the Health Care Com
President. Let gccc countries have the operation. And this operation became legitimate. And in principle, we supported this operation. And we announced that we can, if they need, we can support, we can give them a Logistic Support and intelligence. So far, we havent received any demand from the coalition. But at the end, turkeys political solution and immediate ceasefire. And humanitarian aid, we are sensitive in that. And broadbased political dialogue. Meaningful dialogue. And possibly National Unity administration or government in yemen. That is what we need. And that is turkeys position. And i was with him in tehran, and he was straight with our iranian counterpart that what iran is doing, their sectarian policy ambitious in the region is not helpful. And not helping their interests either. We were very clear with iran, but we can aaron should also be involved in the process. In this process that i mentioned in yemen. They should also use their influence that they shall withdrawal a
Republicans to stand up to their farright flank, release the economic hostages and reopen the federal government . With House Speaker john boehner maintaining that all he wants to do is have a conversation with the president , he got his wish today. When president obama rang him up. And we have just learned that Speaker Boehner will make a statement at 4 30 p. M. , which, of course, well bring you live. And president obama today called on the speaker, reiterating that hes willing to negotiate with republicans, just as soon as they reopen the government and stop threatening to default on the nations debt. Just because they dont like the Health Care Law. Thats the president s position. And at a press conference today, he stuck with it. I will sit down and work with anyone of any party, not only to talk about the budget. Ill talk about ways to improve the health care system. Im ready to head up to the hill and try. Ill even spring for dinner again. But im not going to do it until the more
The impact as the twoday meeting starts. Dagen michigans capital under siege. Protests over right to work. Connell should we call it an apple tax . On average, families are spending thousands of dollars a year on apple products. Dagen it is not a tax, it is a choice. Top of the hour, stocks now and every 15 minutes. Nicole all right, dagen and connell, take a look at the markets. The Dow Jones Industrials up triple digits. The dollar has been lower. They have talked about the gains that we have been seeing over in europe. The euro top 50. That is very interesting, as well. This is the environment. It bodes very well. Another winning day here on wall street. Drug stocks, bank stocks doing well. The vix, the fear index, is to the downside. Lets take a look at urban outfitters. Taking a look at their quarterly sales. They are looking better than expected. Under their umbrella is a name brand that a lot of the teenagers know very well. They had a good block friday. Urban outfitters is up o