Good morning. Welcome to the subcommittee on communication and technologies. I am glad to welcome our witnesses back before the subcommittee. I know it has been seven months since we had you before us and i know we all missed the warm welcoming atmosphere of our hearing room. Despite that passage of time many issues that were of concern to us then still remain unresolved today. For example, i asked about the investigation into phone carrier selling the realtime location of nearly every american. Mr. Chairman, you told me even after more than one year had passed we still cannot tell whether this practice has stopped and could not say whether the impacted individuals have been notified and could not tell us that members of congress and lawenforcement had their locations sold or tracked and in june of this year you told senator blumenthal that you were wrapping up this investigation and with that recommendation shortly. That was six months ago. We still dont have them. Chairman sloan and
Morning. Welcome to the subcommittee on communication and technologies. I am glad to welcome our witnesses back before the subcommittee. I know it has been seven months since we had you before us and i know we all missed the warm welcoming atmosphere of our hearing room. Despite that passage of time many issues that were of concern to us then still remain unresolved today. For example, i asked about the investigation into phone carrier selling the realtime location of nearly every american. Mr. Chairman, you told me even after more than one year had passed we still cannot tell whether this practice has stopped and could not say whether the impacted individuals have been notified and could not tell us that members of congress and lawenforcement had their locations sold or tracked and in june of this year you told senator blumenthal that you were wrapping up this investigation and with that recommendation shortly. That was six months ago. We still dont have them. Chairman sloan and i wro
Electricity from great batteries and methanol from natural gas to get the consumption of oil way down. Thanks, thanks for that question. The short answer is that there are inventors and companies and argan talk about this. Im sure, who are trying all of these. And one of the im a believer in natural car natural gas car future. And its for this reason, that so, you know, in economics, you know, does supply create demand does demand create supply . It goes both ways. One of the most interesting formulations is supply creating demand. And it goes back to the way i like to picture it, is the cocaine model. So did americans become hooked on crack cocaine because we started out being hooked on crack cocaine and then the cartel responded to that . Or did the cartel start pumping cocaine into the United States and then the market developed from that . So just transferring that over to natural gas, here we are in a world were utterly awash in natural gas. I checked yesterday, natural gas is 2.
And its the saddest thing to see, you know, grass growing up through concrete. A few hours ago, the Parks Department told us the hickman playground, the one we showed you with all of those cracked blacktops, essentially, that is a park that is scheduled for a full renovation starting next week. And city hall stresses 35 parks in lowincome neighborhoods have been renovated in just the last year. But during his mayoral campaign, bill de blasio supported a more ambitious plan to force the private operators of central park, the highline, and other welloff parks to contribute 20 of their budgets to help fix up parks in poor areas. City hall is no longer expressing support for that idea. Back to you. Thank you very much, chris. And remember, if you have something you think the news 4 iteam should look into, call us at 1866news 244. This is new tonight, an update to a heartbreaking story we first brought you on tuesday. Police in patterson say theyve arrested the driver who hit and killed a t
I know there is some concerns about privacy of seniors with the web camera and video monitoring may give challenges to want to ensure the privacy of seniors and their dignity using this technology. But we also want to make sure we are looking now for their safety. I know using privacy techniques such as old the silhouettes on video monitors to ease some of the privacy concerns over adults but the challenge for those is to maximize safety with the minimum invasion of privacy they get to the chairman and witnesses to be here today and i look forward to learning from your testimony. That is an excellent statement. We have been joined by senator perdue, a senator cater and senator casey. Thanks for joining us this afternoon. Now we will turn to the panel and first year from the up Tech Industry veteran and the founder of aging in Place Technology watch. I a understand she also has the of wisdom to have her seventh home in the state of maine. That did not mean that is where you are testifyi