Welcome. And we are delighted to have all of you with this today. The committee gathers to examine this state of the television and video marketplace. Im glad to convened this hearing with my colleague, se senator cantwell, hours established panel of witnesses and thank them for appearing. The honorable michael powell, president and ceo of an cta the internet and television association. The honorable gordon smith, president and ceo of the National Association of broadcasters and our former colleague. Mr. David kinney, ceo of nielsen. Mr. Craig aaron, president and ceo of free press. Americans are living in the golden age of television. Weve never had more choices and access to video content. When viewers tend to be home at a certain time to watch their favorite show, they are gone. Television experience is moving away from dependence on fixed schedules, programming links and the confines of the Family Living room. With the development of overthetop technology, digital programming and s
Tech companies to meet with members of congress, talk about some of the Public Policy issues they face. That is this week on the communicators. What is the point of bringing all this technology to capitol hill . As you know, we produce the Worlds Largest innovation event. In las vegas every january but not everyone on capitol hill can come to las vegas so we want to get less than one person here and feature the innovative things and even start up companies that could Show Congress the Great Innovation that we have in this country. What is the advantage of showing it . Some people can learn by reading or watching. Like a livehing experience when you talk to people who work for a company, explaining their technology and frankly anyone who comes here or any other industry event as a politician, they are learning something. Changing world where technology is moving so quickly and so many policies are affected whether it is self driving cars a robotics or drones or all this Amazing Software
Topic, fostering bipartisanship in intelligence oversight. We have a senior fellow at the center for National American security. And a former National Security lawyer within the doj from 20002010. The bush and obama administrations. Really, the poster children or lawmakers for bipartisanship on an Intelligence Committee, congressman Rupert Berger from maryland is district and includes the National Security agency. And former congressman and the chairman of the house Intelligence Committee, mike rogers. All of you know mike and dutch. Mike and dutch served on the committee as chairman and in ranking from 20112015. And mike and 2016. So we will start this is just a very timely topic at such a remarkable moment marked by intense partisanship, including even in National Security, which is an area that has traditionally been impervious to party affiliation. And the bipartisanship, we know it is not necessarily always mean everybody will always agree and lets agree all the time, but there ar
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And now it is such a pleasure to introduce our extremely extinguished panel of leading lincoln scholars to discuss lincolns speeches and the american idea. Michael, Michael Burlingame chancellor know b lynn, distinguished at the university of illinois, springfield, is the author of many books on lincoln including the enrolled of Abraham Lincoln, and to volume american Abraham Lincoln, a life. As well as his new book which will be discussing tonight. The black mans president. Abraham, lincoln African Americans and the pursuit of racial equality. Noah feldman it is the frankfurter professor of law, chair of the society of fellows, and founding director of the program and jewish and israeli law at harvard university. He wrote nine books including the three lives of james madison, genius as president , and his latest book we will be discussing tonight, the broken constitution, lincoln s and they refounding of america. Diana schaub it is professor of Political Science at maryland university