First pick for a cabinet member. The backlash over who he is choosing to stand by his side continues. His team announcing this morning the first member of trumps cabinet, jeff sessions. The alabama senator has been offered the position of attorney general. Sessions was the first gop senator to endorsed trump during the primary. Trump releasing a statement saying hes been unbelievably impressed with him sessions could face a challenging confirmation in the senate. In 1986, he was blocked from becoming a district judge over racially charged comments. The country is very concerned about diversity. Senator sessions could have a real problem getting approval by the senate. Another appointee facing resistance, michael flint. Just named National Security Republican National convention, he incited the infamous lock her up chant about hillary clinton. He says he is deeply concerned that mike pompeo of kansas as director of the cia. Trump also plans to meet with mitt romney over the weekend. Hea
Unfair for the people who come at the end of the discussions because they do not have a their testimony. I thank you to please keep comments to a limited three minutes. Started, i would like to ask all of the drafting Committee Members to introduce themselves. I tell you, i say it is an honor and pleasure to serve with these ladies and gentlemen from across , a verytry compassionate and Brilliant Group of people who are trying to synchronize the problems that our constituents are going through, the issues that are. Acing americans because we great pleasure to let them introduce themselves briefly. Thank you very much. And the policy director for senator Bernie Sanders. I am a member of the toledo tribe. I am Bonnie Schaeffer from North Carolina and florida. Im honored to be on this committee. Fromd Luis Gutierrez chicago and i want to say hi to all my friends in phoenix, arizona. Cornell west. Teacher and citizen. Tandon neera tanden. Wendy sherman. President of the arabamerican instit
Outside the box. I began my education in fort greeley while the School Facilities were a bit rustic the high quality of education i received inside those walls is what i remember so much. I thank each and every teacher who has taken on the high calling of educating our children. While we certainly have room for improvement in our schools, we should also celebrate our achievements. In nevada last month, at one of the toughest High School Wrestling tornments in the country, senior josh roteman won his weight class and earned the tournaments outstanding wrestling award. Josh is the first allamerican athlete from the high school and has been accepted to the u. S. Naval academy. This past spring, kristine fenderson of fair banks captured a silver medal at the United States decathlon super quiz. A competition that attract teams from around the world. These individual successes serve as reminder that the next generation has the talent and drive to succeed. Its up to us to provide the opportun
World is because the fcc was relatively retrained in 2010 compared to what it did now. Time will tell. The best example is europe where europeans have significantly less access to high speed broad band than we do. 82 of americans it only 48 of europeans. And when it comes to wireless in particular, the u. S. Has 50 of the worlds 4g lte subscribers. The reason is because till february 26th, we were relatively retrained and a bipartisan consensus that served so well since the clinton administration. Mr. Chairman, im out of time. I have additional questions id like to submit for the record. Senator sullivan, thank you. Well make sure those questions get submitted for the record. Since i cant see anybody else z coming in senator manchins turn. The chair recognizes the senator from West Virginia. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I appreciate that so much. This is such an interesting topic. I keep thinking back to those who are old enough or grew up basically before there was mobile phones. Cell pho
You may have seen a spirited reply to the letter which is worth looking at. One of the issues which is a arisen of course in congress over the last couple of weeks, including with the visit with netanyahu is that it probably has made it rather more in congress than it was previously. That also changes the dynamic as far as the United States is concerned. The foreign secretary said, we have made some progress in the negotiations, i think there is a willingness on both sides to try to reach a deal, but the obstacles are still formidable. These are about Big Decisions which are going to have to be reached primarily by iranian colleagues, about the future of their nuclear industry, and the amount they have invested in it. Those are difficult decisions. And as the foreign secretary said, there are still a number of them which are critical to success on which we do not have movement. So as just said we go into the negotiations in the next round of negotiations with the degree of optimism, bu