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Which only applies to your voice, the universal service fee youll be paying a fee on broadband and that will happen i imagine in the next several weeks or months. Secondly and critically there are all sorts of other fees that are going to be assessed. For example, currently a lot of broadband providers that had not been classified as Telecom Providers paid a lower rate for the equipment that they attach to the utility poles known as pole attachments. They paid a rate under section 224d. Now because theyre all Telecom Providers they will have to pie a much higher rate under section 224e and smaller providers in particular will have to pay 150 to 200 Million Dollars a year just for those higher pole attachment rates. Then you add on top of that the higher state and local property taxes that a lot of these companies will have to pay because theyre now Telecom Providers. All of these costs have to come out of somewhere. And its going to be the consumers wallet. And that is one of the reaso
Later, jeff mauer will discuss world oil and gas prices. Washington journal is live each morning at 7 00 eastern. We also take your phone calls Facebook Comments come and tweets. At the same time Hillary Clinton was speaking at the center for American Progress this morning, ted cruz announced he is running for president. He made the announcement of Liberty University in lynchburg virginia. [applause] sen. Cruz thank you so much president falwell. God bless Liberty University. [laughter] [applause] sen. Cruz i am thrilled to join you today. At the Largest Christian University in the world. [applause] today, i want to talk with you about the promise of america. Imagine your parents when they were children. Imagine a little girl growing up in wilmington, delaware. [applause] during world war ii, the daughter of irish and Italian Catholic families, working class. Her goal ran numbers her uncle ran numbers in wilmington. She grew up with dozens of cousins the kaiser mom was the second young
Until we come closer to the kind of system we all hope and need out of our department of defense. The bottom line goal is how to defend the country. That is what this is all about. Host we have come to the end of the hour. Thank you for being here this morning. A really great start. A continuation of the effort. We very much look forward to having the legislative language released on wednesday. I imagine there will be lots we will be interested in. Good luck in your efforts. Thank you. [applause] on our next washington journal, we we will talk to tend his congressman Michael Burgess about a bill that tries to solve the annual medicare doc fix. Congresswoman glewen moore will talk about the budget. Then jeff mauer will discuss world oil and gas prices. Washington journal is live every morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Texas republican senator ted cruz announced he is running for president. Here is part of what he said and you can watch the entire remarks at www. Cspan. Org. Senator cruz i
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