Welcome, everyone. It is really tremendous to see so many people in the room for what is a really important issue. It does not get enough tension. For the next hour were going to focus on the peculiar way we choose or president. Not by direct selection of our people, but indirect manner. Electors who then go through process to select our president. Louder. Okay. Can you hear me now if i speak like this . Okay. The election of duty experience that was disheartening in other ways with our panelists will get into, but it was not an election aimed at the entire country. It was an election aimed at about a dozen battleground states if you did not live in a battleground state. You were essentially a bystander in the election. The experience has led many people to ask why. Why do we continue to have this system and what are the processfect proces prospects of doing something about it. Im going to speak about the Electoral College. The constitution sets the rules of the college. To become pres
Brought to you as a pub Health Care Service by your local cable or satellite provider. Host fcc commissioner Michael Orielly, it has been a while since you have been here. We have thought had you on since Net Neutrality became the law of the land. How is that going . Guest it is early to know how the rules are going to play out and what the impacts are. We have a court case still going on and we will see how that moves through the process and on the litigation side. Host there is talk on capitol hill with republicans about doing something to mitigate Net Neutrality. Is that possible . Guest i will leave that to the friends on capitol hill. I left that institution, enjoyed my time there but i am not in a great position to answer. But i suggest the legislation and reading it seems like a heavy lift right now. Seems like those folks who feel they have done fairly well in commission items dont have interest in negotiating. I leave it to them. Host is there anything you can do as the commis
That is all the time we have in our first segment. Next, we will be joined by the executive director of the American Association of state highway and transportation officials to talk about the looming trust fund expiration, and what it could mean for projects around the country. Later, we will discuss xray cities and enforcement under president obamas executive order with marc rosenblum. We will be right back. Tonight on the communicators, fcc commissioner oreilly on key issues like net neutrality, regulating the internet, and influence on policy making. When an item is presented to the commissioner level that document should be available publicly. I think that would provide an opportunity for everyone to come in on exactly what we are thinking and hone in on issues that they see as problematic. Right now we have people that raised concerns about our items but often they dont know what is being put forward. They are kind of it is problematic for my point of view. I would rather people
Instead of voting on a six year 350 billion highway bill the house is voting for a three year 8 billion ban bandaid, why . Because to refinance the export import bank, congress is playing politics with the nations highways and the house is start being its summer recess tomorrow meaning a longer term transportation solution will not be debated until the fall. That is textbook kicking the can. Now here is why this matters. Americas infrastructure rates a d plus, power communication water power more, they get no more than a dplus grade on a report card, put out by the American Society of Civil Engineers. America needs to spend 3. 6 trillion by 2020, and not only are we doing enough to modernize our infrastructure, were barely maintaining what we have now. It used to be the envy, now were following behind the rest of the world. Down from seivet i seventh in 2. In case youre wondering, hong kong, singapore and the United Arab Emirates took the top three places last year. Hong kong, that joe
Bill the house is voting for a three year 8 billion ban bandaid, why . Because to re finance the export import bank, congress is playing politics with the nations highways and the house is start being its summer recess tomorrow meaning a longer term transportation solution will not be debated until the fall. That is textbook kicking the can. Now here is why this matters. Americas infrastructure rates a d plus, power communication water power more, they get no more than a dplus grade on a report card, put out by the American Society of Civil Engineers. America needs to spend 3. 6 trillion by 2020, and not only are we doing enough to modernize our infrastructure, were barely maintaining what we have now. It used to be the envy, now were following behind the rest of the world. Down from seivet i seventh in 23. In case youre wondering, hong kong, singapore and the United Arab Emirates took the top three places last year. Hong kong, that joe biden said had an airport so great, you would thi