Actually it is. Its under water. Youll see a bunker sticking up out of the water about 500 feet out. It used to be about 500 feet on the land. Now its 500 feet out in the water. Something is going on here. We dont make this stuff up. The key is for us how can we have cleaner air, how can we address the issues of rising waters . Delaware is the lowest lying state in the country. Its a real problem for us. In order for us to address this, we need to figure out how to do it together. And im not interested in seeing epg jam anything down your throats, but we need to figure this out together. It seems like you export a lot of electricity. Any understanding of the rules being contemplated here, you dont get a lot of credit for that. The credit goes to california and those other states. We have to be able to figure out how to deal with that. I want to ask you a question of the lady from california. It sounds to me like youre doing pretty well and you possibly have a cleaner environment and a
Respect to a Music Production industry after the turn of the century, its no longer necessary and unjust few blee aggregates copyright owners rights today. Fortunately, legislation has been introduced to begin to address this and i thank members of the subcommittee for supporting the songwriters equity act. Public performance royalties represent the large income for song writers. Its inherently a free market right. Its not regulated by law. But because the department of justice imposed consent degrees in 1941, incredibly, those decrees are still in effect today. They do not sunset. Under these world war ii era decrees song writers and publishers may not negotiate their value in a free market t a federal judge in the Southern District of new york dictates how much a songwriter is paid. Last week they have announced they are undertaking a review of these decrees and we hope song writers will receive fair market compensation. Using music in movies, television shows, music videos and youtu
Inconsistencies and injustices is our performing artists receive absolutely no compensation when their music is played over the air on terrestrial, meaning a. M. fm radio. Congress required payment when sound recordings are transmitted digitally and 95 but have yet to extend its basic protection to artists when their songs are played down after more a. M. Radio. This is incredibly on just. The bottom line is that terrestrial radio profits from intellectual property of recording on this for free. I am aware of no other instance in the United States for this is allowed, and it needs to be remedied. I agree and i plan to take up their charge. Colleagues on both sides of the aisle by developing legislation to address the various problems in existing law and one unified bill. Bringing fairness and efficiency to her music licensing system and ensuring no particular reason enjoys a special advantage against new and innovative technologies. Consumers dont know the button i pushed on a car dash
11 10, but i apologize for this, but if you could abbreviate your questions. Senator toomey. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I will try to abbreviate my question. Good to see you both, and i appreciate the discussion we had in my office,s mayor castro. I do need to follow up on one of the topics we discussed. Many members of this committee alluded to the ongoing work to reform Housing Finance. While we have a range of opinions about how best to do that, i believe there is a unanimous agreement on this committee that however we do it, its got to involved bringing private capital into financing residential mortgages. At the same time we are having this discussion, as you know, there is a movement under way to attempt by certain communities, to attempt to use Eminent Domain as an argument to justify confiscating mortgages from private lenders at a discount some, who knows what discount to what theyre actually worth. First of all, i think its a blatant violation of contract sanctity if they do th
Great necessity for global Food Security given out more than 3 billion people, 50 of the people on this planet at every corner of the world depend on fish as a significant source of protein. The connection between a healthy ocean and life itself for every Single Person on earth cannot be overstated. And we will hear from scientists and we will talk about that relationship in the course of the next hours and days. Share nothing so completely as the ocean that covers nearly three quarters of our planet. And i remember the first time i really grasped that notion. It was in the early 1970s when the first color pictures of earth from space were released, the famous blue marble photographs. And when you look at those images, you dont see borders or markers separating one nation from another. You just see big masses of green and sometimes brown surrounded by blue. For me, that image shaped the realization that what has become cliched and perhaps even taken for granted not perhaps, is taken fo