Vote vote vote the presiding officer is there anyone wishing to change their vote . Is there anyone remaining to vote . On this motion the yeas are 87. The nays are 9. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report. The clerk nomination, department of transportation, derek kan of california to be under secretary fo secretary of transportation for policy. A senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune madam president , i rise to voice my strong support for the nomination of derek kan. The Commerce Committee held a hearing on his nomination on june 8 in 2017 and reported his nomination favorably out of the committee on june 29 of 2017 by voice vote. Its now november 9. Over four months since the nomination was reported out of committee. This noncontroversial well qualified nominee has been languishing in the senate for far too long. Its truly unfortunate, madam president , when we have to go through the cloture process on this particular nomine
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By rebels who want to exchange them for jailed for fighters. Its her birthday and cant happen. Reporter the recalled vehicles may be responsible for hundreds of additional deaths. Malaysia airlines 370 disappeared a week ago today and its going west to the indian ocean and a u. S. Navy ship is heading there. Im stephanie and the search was expanded after a report said the plane may have continued flying for hours after its last radar contact and a chinese ship and radar found nothing off vietnam and we have the latest on the investigation. One of the most confusing and intriguing questions, did the plane keep flying, was the jet in the hour for hours after it disappeared in the air and they reported from the wall street journal that investigators are looking into in and systems that automatically send out engine data continued to operate for sometime. Malaysia officials refuted that. Whenever there are new details they must be corroborated. And these media reports talks specifically ab
300 megahertz. The president s five megahertz that he called for a couple years ago, and we certainly applaud him for that effort. And we want to continue to push and get the spectrum as quickly as possible. Because Companies Like the two gentlemen represent on either side of me are using the spectrum for new and varied uses, and the people who stand to gain the most are our consumers that are now over 310 million in this country. And so we want to see that continue. Okay, thank you, steve. Craig. A lot of good comments made and agree with all this but i think from a single highest priority im going to agree with steve on this. Its spectrum. To elaborate, spectrum, spectrum, spectrum. By the way, let me tell you why. I agree strongly with the untreated, for example, he regulatory a lot of these areas where the innovation and investment in the industry and the Technological Progress are going to bring tremendous consumer benefits and really what we are looking for its policymakers to st
Providers they might want to offer storage type of philosophies to compete with amazon or other storage capacity. They also have incentives it easier to charge the differentiating out among the various people that want to use the capacity to make more money that way than to fill that capacity at possibly be charging them less because now you dont have to demand constrained. Some people are going to pay more for more like room on the airplane. They can charge some people a little bit more because some people value a little bit more comfort so whereas the average person would say i cant pay another 50 for this im just going to have to muddle along. Host you used to terms. Guest title 02 is the common carrier status. Guest host it became the proposal guest to classify them as Telecommunication Services. The providers are allowed to be regulated as common carriers under federal law. Guest kind of buried in the document is one sentence that says alternatively to classify them as telecommuni