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The value of spectrum is raising ahead of the incentive auction so for a variety of reasons a number of companies have consolidated and bought stations across the county. Sinclair broadcasting has been aggressive in terms of snatching up the smaller broadcasters. Host how Many Television stations does Sinclair Broadcasting own across the country . Guest i believe something in excess of a hundred stations. They have a number of joint Sales Agreements and they will likely be effected by this. In some cases, they can get waivers if they can prove they are necessary to keep them afloat but in most cases they will have align and hire people or figure out how to go. We may see them sold. Host can Sinclair Broadcasting own an abc and an nbc in the same city . Guest that is against the rules. You can only one one station in the large mack market. You are only allowed to own one out of the abc, nbc, fox, and cbs station in every market. When sinclair made an agreement to buy a number of station
Several of us noteasseveral of e testimony of the 40 million records 96 of them come from the visa waiver countries or aspiring in which the requirement to populate the database is set. If the country becomes noncompliant what actions would you take . First would be the communication between the Program Office working with the components on hsi to point out the deficit and overtime we havent met the situation yet but there would be the authority of the secretarys office with secretary johnson to take steps to see that that effort was enforced in the law. We havent had this instance happened yet. What would be a realistic amount of time, three months or six months quick because of the importance to the security vetting we wouldnt want that to be an extended period of time. I know everybody seems to be in compliance right now but is there a hurdle to providing the information you hear from the partner nations . With regards to the visa as the chair pointed out at the outset of these are
Budget cuts civic under current law you have problems there is not enough money currently. We will offer amendments on the democratic side to stand up for students and parents. Twothirds of the College Graduates have an average debt of over 29,000. The general consensus is we ought to do more to make college more affordable. I used to be able to see that far. [laughter] just a few years ago. You mentioned in School Subsidies can you explain it . To make under current law if you borrow from the federal government for a student loan the government subsidizes the Interest Payment while you are still in school. The proposal from the fiscal condition would require the student paid the interest cost. So as a student or the parents pay the interest while they are in school . Yes. For the graduate Student Loans the policy was adopted recently maybe two years ago spinet that is an important point for students to be prepared now they have to pick up soloed payment. It was a bipartisan basis a co