[applause] i cant thank you enough. It questions. Not a bad question coming from you to him. Many thanks to all of you for coming today. Just one request and that is that you clear this audio because actually the two of them have to get to a press conference and rather quickly so we have a and i think if we clear the aisle and let them get through it would be much appreciated. [applause] thank you. Thank you. [applause] [applause] next new York Democratic senator Kirsten Gillibrand call some women to rise up and make a difference in the world. This is about 45 minutes. [applause] its just such a pleasure for me to introduce two extraordinary women tonight in two extraordinary voices in our nations public life. Our guest of honor is the mother of two, a wife, a lawyer sunday schoolteacher Community Volunteer former democratic representative from the 20th district of new york and of course now United States senator from new york in her second te term. But thats not all. As of two days ag
And she was the one with the picture were soaked with the Russian Foreign minister with the Big Red Button reset and a big smile. Can you imagine such a thing . Did they not understand that people have very different ideas. Let them are putins objective may well be tube rebuild the russian empire but those mistakes combined with some other tactical mistakes in syria for instance to draw a red line and then say gosh i guess i cant react without getting congresses approval but right now hes willing to act in iraq without congresses approval. Nonetheless couldnt do it than in that sends a message to russia and others in the world that is extraordinarily unfortunate for america. We have seen an explosion of very bad things throughout the world because the rest of the world has calculated what is happening. That is a dramatic reduction in our military capabilities and theres a departmental review that was recently completed report on by commission including president clintons department of
Concerning. As long as you give me the time back. I dont believe our discussion would welcome that opportunity. And on this piece, we leave that authority with the fcc. We dont do away with that here although it is absent in the bill, it is still resident. So that interconnection we would be happy to have. We also provided this about the Specialized Services and yet it doesnt allow the fcc to define what constitutes a specialized service. Can you envision this language being used by an isp to advantage one competitor over another and even they themselves providing Specialized Services that can comparing the marketplace . I think the lack of specificity could be paramount to discrimination and so yes. Certainly with respect to affiliated content, the Network Provider itself creates engagements and Specialized Services which look like as only a matter of ownership and we are very concerned. Thank you. I just want to add on to what we were saying with several news reports that Senior Exec
And how the world has changed but it is also the industries that have changed in the sense that this is a Corporate Structure that is out there now as well a lot of consolidation going on in Companies Getting into various areas of the business of at one point they are acting like a commentary, including a content provider and so forth. You mentioned the distinction between Information Services and Telecommunications Services in this law. Is that a meaningful distinction today . I think over time it should not be. We are entering a world in which a bid is a bed Data Networks follow radically different characteristics than the one that inform this written in the 30s or the 90s. Its one of the highly contentious issues related to ambiguity and its even more inapplicable to modern functions and modern networks and i think that we will be ironing out this governing body for years to come and how it is properly applied, networks that do not behave in the way that these are. You say in your t
Nd so long as it is not inconsistent with the rest of it. It gives a most any authority to the fcc. This is a broad expansion. I pose the question, what happens when an fcc not to their liking grabs the regulatory throttle. That means that amazon betsy and every other m internet based company should be prepared to meet its new regulator. Look no further than your fellow witnesses, mr. Powell and miss baker, former regulators who currently represent the regulated. We who are elected to write the law and set the communications policy. My priority is to protect consumers and the internet we rely upon. My priority is to encourage its expansion and to various segments of our population that are underserved and too often ignored. We have taken on complicated medications challenges and produced good legislative solutions. We are stood up to special interests and stood with the American People. The draft legislative proposal represents our good faith effort. Our committee will not ignore our r