Neutrality rules aimed at ensuring Internet Service providers treat all internet traffic equally. She says text for the policies can be coming in the coming days. Voted for Net Neutrality during the obama administration. It was repealed in 2017 under president trump. This is 25 minutes. [background noises] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i think were going to get started if people can take their seats. Could you folks take their seats if they can . So we will get going. I am from scc office of media relations. Just so you know we will be posting a fact sheet about the proposal text of the chairwomans remarks. Without further do let me introduce. Thanks will and thank you everyone for being here. You know, it was more than three years ago when the covid virus reached our shores and upended daytoday life. I do not know if you remember this early days i thought it was bewildering. We were told to stay home, hunker down and live life online. Thought was what i important
This is another case where youre a public figure and you let your messy private life combine together. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. At a Senate Hearing for the active head of the federal Railroad Administration, members questioned the mom knee about implementation about positive train control. A safety implementation to preefrt derailments, twothirds of Rail Companies wouldnt be able to implement the system before a december 31st deadline. This hearing of the science and Transportation Committee is an hour and a half. Want to welcome our nominee here this morning. And get this confirmation hearing under way. Today were going to consider the nomination of sarah feinberg. The fris mission is to oversee the safe, reliable and efficient movement of people and goods throughout our nations rail network. That rail network is absolutely vital to the nations economy. So its important that those who oversee it have the requisite skills and experience. Serving s the act
Safety. As noted in an article in politico, at this crucial moment this is the nations top safety regulator is a former facebook executive and white house adviser whose resume is long on communications and policy posts and noticeably short on railroad experience, end quote. So in addition to asking ms. Feinberg to respond to those concerns, ill be also asking her about the looming deadline for railroads to implement positive train control. Those in the Rail Industry are well aware, it is a rail system designed to prevent collision, overspeed derailments and other accidents by automatically slowing or stopping a train that is not being operated safetily by locomotive engineers. The improvement act mandated the implementation of systems by december 21st of 2015. Complex challenges have prevented most railroads from meeting this deadline which is rapidly approaching. Yesterday the independent Government Accountability Office Issued an updated report that found that freight and Passenger R
Underway. Today well consider the nomination of feinberg. Efficient movement of people and goods throughout our nations rail network. That rail network is vital to the nations economy so its important that those who directly oversee the safety and efficiency of this network have the skills and experience. Miss feinberg has been serving since january prior to her current assignment she served as chief of staff to transportation secretary from 2013 to 2014. From 2011 to 2013 j she was the policy and crisis communication director of facebook. Before that, she served as a Communications Director for the House Democratic caucus. She has an admirable commitment to Public Service, are concerned about the lack of experience in Railroad Safety. Its noted, former facebook executive and white house advisor whose resume is long on communications and policy posts and short on railroad experience, end quote. So in addition to asking miss feinberg to respond to the concerns, ill be asking her about t
I appreciate that. We must beat Hillary Clinton. Four minutes left. Im going to get my question right now. The irs, the department of commerce, the department of energy, the department of commerce. I just think the department of commerce is such a base of cronyism. We need to eliminate it twice. A crash of a private plane crashed into an Apartment Building in ohio. Rescue workers say there are no survivors. Winds and a potential for tornadoes on tap today from the rockies to the midwest. Former president jimmy carter receives good news. His doctors say his cancer has stopped spreading and he is responding well to treatment. The feds have smacked down new charges against three men accused in the largest ever financial hack. The data breach at these firms were breathtaking in scope and in size. Draftkings and fanduel have been declared illegal gambling site by the new York Attorney general. The Postal Service is tossing a package onto on the front porch of a house near seattle. All that.