And its latest order has glaring legal flaws that is sure to keep the fcc mired in litigation for a long time. Turning to the designated entity program. The fcc must take immediate action to end its abuse. What once was a wellintentioned Program Designed to help Small Businesses has become a playpen for corporate giants. The recent aws3 auction is a shocking case in point. Dish, which has annual revenues of 14 billion and a market cap of over 34 billion holds an 85 he can witd stake in two companies that are claiming 3. 3 billion in taxpayer subsidies. That makes a mockery of the Small Business program. The 3. 3 billion at stake is real money. It could be used to underwrite over 585,000 pell grants, fund School Lunches for over 6 million children or incentivizing the service of 100,000. It denied them spectrum licenses they would have used to give Rural Consumers a competitive wireless alternative. In my view, the fcc should quickly adopt a further notice of proposed rulemaking so we c
Screeria nigeria. Here are some of our feature programs for this weekend. On book tv saturday at 10 00 p. M. Eastern on after words eric foner on the efforts of free blacks and white abolitionists to help fugitive slaves. And saturday night at 10 00 the rise and leadership of isis in the middle east. And saturday morning starting at 9 00 eastern and throughout the day on cspan 3 American History tv joins historians and authors at the Abraham Lincoln symposium live from fords theater. And sunday evening artifacts related to president lincolns assassination. Find the complete Television Lineup on cspan. Org. Email us at comments c span. Org or send us a tweet. Join the conversation. Like us on facebook. Follow us on twitter. Next fcc commissioners discuss their recent open internet vote classifying the internet as a common carrier. Last month the fcc approved new open internet rules designed to prohibit Internet Service providers from blocking or discriminating against legal content movi
Global economy more than six times of tear rifls. Ariffs. I recognize my responsibility to serve all of you and appreciate the input, cooperation help, advice and assistance that you do. We really appreciate this robust dialogue with the clamham lerber and its members. We want to continue to fulfill or obligation operating as a strong Law Enforcement association while helping our businesses remain competitive in the global marketplace. Thank you all very much. Thank you commissioner. We have a few minutes for questions. If i could just ask you to state your name and who youre with to ask your question. Who would like to start it off . You did cover a lot of ground there, thank you, sir. I thought we had one back here but i will just lead off with questions while there is a vocal group up here so i know you guys will have one soon. So spencer, get up there. Commissioner, thank you again for addressing the clam berhamber and broader membership from other organizations as well. We appreci
In washington d. C. As part of the United States senate youth program, sunday night fa8 00 p. M. Pacific on e1cspans q a. On wednesday a panel looks at trends in Health Care Costs. Looking at the role of the Affordable Health care act in the slowdown of health care in the last few years. This was put together by the alliance for healthc reform and the kaiser foundation. Good afternoon. I am marilyn sarafeeney with the alliance of health reform. Along with senators carter and blunt, i would like to welcome you to todays briefing on the subject of Health Care Costs. I would also like to thankw3 our partner in this briefing, the Kaiser Family t foundation and we have with us today as my comoderator drew altman who is the founder of the kaiser foundation. Our Mission Today is to try to take some of the mystery out of Health Care Costs. Our experts are goingt to explain the trends, the prospects moving forward, what is driving Health Care Costs, and what policymakers and the Health Care Com
Or google or you want to hire real talent, you pay them more because you really need that talent, so that you pay them more to offset the employment tax. If youre working the lumberyard in oregon or somewhere, where theres a surplus of labor, the you dont pay them more to offset it, so the irony is that it ends up hitting the lower paid guy and the lower the struggling industry more than it hits the person whos in the consulting or technology industry. So reducing those employment taxes are have many benefits. For example, 24 Million People or 25 Million People working part time now could very well be brought into the workforce. You could find people that werent working to be brought into the workforce, so thats the good news. The question is, what are you going to use to provide the money to do that . And you know, i know the committee has looked at it. Its probably not possible. But who knows . They said tax reform wasnt possible in 86. You could take a dollar gasoline tax or you cou