Nomination judge neil gorsuch. Well hear from the former law partner and some former law clerks live at noon eastern here on cspan3. Federal chair joined clyburn and Michael Oreilly at a Senate Oversight hearing. Net neutrality and wireless Broadband Access. This was first appearance on capitol hill since becoming head of the fcc. This is just under 3 hours. Good morning. Welcome to todays hearing on oversight on the federal communications commission. I should point out since this committee has jurisdiction over sports that last night, the South Dakota State University jack rabbits punched their ticket to the ncaa 2a tournament by winning the summit tournament. I know im getting gavelled down here by someone, but okay, good. That was applause. Thats what youre soeupposed t do. Listen, the last time we met, i think 6 years ago and a lot has changed since then. Weve got a new fcc chairman and new majority in charge of the agency and many, the first fcc oversight hearing but last hearing,
Of commerce. Our principle functions involve managing the use of spectrum by federal agencies, we have overseen a Broadband Access and Adoption Program started with the recovery act in 2009. We are overseeing the Public Safety Broadband Network development by firstnet. Then we spend a lot of time on internet policy matters both domestic and international. Host and that is where we want to start. One of the issues you have been working on is ican and whether or not it should be turned over to a group of international stakeholders. Is that on tract to happen in september . Guest in the community, yes,. In the sense of you have to go back to 1997 and 98 for the origins. But in 97, the Clinton Administration felt given the choice of having the internet grouped by government or private sector the choice was lets make sure the prive private sector managers this. So this started a long odyssey to get to where we could complete the naming. Two years ago, in the hopes of completing the privitiv
Grown gdpwise 5 per year since 2000. Violent extremism is amongst the major risks to economies in part of africa. Tunisias gdp gross has been cut from 3 to 1 . Chads gdp contracted 1 in 2015 from a growth of 5 in 2014. And countries like kenya and nigeria saw a reduction of 25 of tourism following terrorist attacks. We in undp estimate that at least 33,000 people have died on african soils since 2011 as victims of violent extremism. And 6 million are currently internally displaced due to radicalization. Mr. Chairman, over the last two years undp has held a number of consultations, conducted a series of studies and commissioned research to better understand the violent extremism scourge in africa. These various studies and research converge in showing three major findings. One, while the drivers of radicalization are multifaceted and defy easy analysis, their major roots are to be found in the combination of poverty and low human development, a sense of economic and political exclusion
I strongly agree with senator mccaskill, and she is verywe aware of my views because we have discussed hers and mine at length and i know that you agree that consumer complaints about this intrusive, invasive practice are very well justified. The fact that Consumers Union conservatively estimates that 350 million are lost annually to phone scams, generally a lot of them the result of robocalls and the good news is advanced technologys available and affordable to stop these very intrusive and invasive machinedriven calls and Telephone Companies ought to make locking options available right away. Even in advance of the rule, the Telephone Companies have the ability to offer that service. And so, i agree with senator mccaskill about the inadvisability of the suggestion made in the budget agreement, but more broadly, i would like to ask what the next steps are that you would view as most likely and most achievable to address this scourge of robocalls that we both have seen across the count
We need them most. Second, universal access. No matter who you are or where you live in this country, for a fair shot at 21st century prosperity, you need accesccess firstrate modern communications. That means we need policies that foster deployment and adoption in urban areas, rural areas and in between. Third, competition. Competition increases innovation and lowers prices. Fourth, Consumer Protection. Communication services are multiplying, but the marketplace is also bewildering to navigate. So we should always be on guard for ways to help consumers make good choices. These values derive from the law and they have informed my work at the commission to date. In light of them, i am especially proud of Agency Efforts to strengthen 911 service, and i am proud of our work to increase access to broadband in schools and enhance opportunities for digital age education. I also believe our spectrum policies for licensed and unlicensed air waves have made our wireless markets competitive, inn