With media organizations from the early caucus and primary states are sponsoring this forum and following the live forum, you can provide your input by joining our callin program and adding comments on facebook and twieter on cspan, cspan radio and cspan. Org. On tuesday federal Communications Chair tom wheeler and commissioner aji pay testified before the communications and technology. They discussed rural access to broadband and over the top Video Services. This is almost three hours. Well call to order the subcommittee communications and technology and i want to welcome everyone here today and wish a very good morning to chairman wheeler and commissioner pay, delighted to have you back before the subcommittee again this year. We appreciate the work youre doing at the fcc and i look forward to your testimony and our opportunities to pursue some issues. At the risk of sounding a bit like a broken record, however i continue to be concerned with the commissionys failure to adhere to sou
Secondary sanctions on foreign entities doing businesses with entities remain listed with terrorism and human rights issues. The problem is the laudable positions have not been made public and they are only effective if they are aggressively publicized and equally enforced. The fact is as u. S. Officials will concede in private conversations that the administration suffers from a trust deficit. Whether one believes this is deserved or not. It is there. And the fact is that not only are none of the positions listed just listed clear within the deal, the deal could easily be read as prohibiting each and every one of them. Failing to make these positions public not only undermines the utility, it makes people question whether the administrations intention is to act on those positions moving forward. Those are Critical Issues not open to interpretation under the iran deal. The task force issued the last statement identifying iran with a region which poses risk to the Financial System. They
Improve wea message content, delivery, training and outreach. With respect to message content, we would increase the maximum message length from 90 to 360 characters for 4g, lte and future networks. Wed significantly improve the quality of information that alert originators are able to transmit by requiring participating wireless carriers to support embedded urls and phone numbers in all wea messages, including amber alerts within one year of the rules publication in the federal register. This would enable the public to view a photo or place a call to authorities by simply clicking on a link in a wea alert. We would create a new alert classification for Public Safety messages, defined as essential Public Safety advisories that prescribe one or more actions likely to save lives or safeguard property. We would also require carriers to support transmission 5 alerts in spanish. The order would also adopt rules to meet originators needs for the delivery of alerts, specifically, wed require
First, strengthen competition, and advance innovation. At the top of that list is the agencys vote last month that will make it easier for consumers to buy a settop box or an app from someone other than their cable company. Is Technology Neutral proposal means that any company will be able to manufacture a settop box or design an app and sell it to consumers. Should a consumer wish to continue renting their settop box from their paytv provider, they can. No one is going to take it away from them. I dont know if theres that much of a love affair with a settop box i that if they wantt they can keep it. Very importantly the fccs proposal is an opportunity to enhance access to independent and minority programming giving consumers the ability to choose between settop boxes or apps with improved search functionality and user interfaces. Nearly 50 years ago the fcc took action to give Consumers Choice as to whether they wanted to rent their landline telephone from ma bell. Consumers not only
Nixon was seen as a Foreign Policy sage. When he died, all the president came out there to california to be at his too many or his bur l burial. September 7th, 1972, 10 32 a. M. Following the controversial shooting of candidate George Wallace whether they were candidates for the presidency or not were offered tem pouporary secret service protection. Youve got one u. S. Senator kennedy whose a secondary factor in the campaign. You give him secret Service Coverage throughout the campaign. He said, i understand. I dont like to give him something but at the same time if he gets shot its our fault. You understand what the problem is. If you the son of a gets shot theyll say he didnt furnish it. We buy his insurance. After the election he wont get a thing. If he gets shot, its too bad. Theres the tough thing. He cant stand ted kennedy. He trails kennedy around. He said i will get a secret service guy but i want him to be a spy for me. He even uses secret service guy not to use. After the ele