Good morning, and welcome to the u. S. Chamber of commerce and to launch, the space economy, our Second Annual space summit. Events such as this are a team effort and we deeply appreciate the support of our sponsors, boeing, northrop, rocket lab, oneweb, hawkeye 360, and ascend. We have been businessy over the past year. From policy discussions ranging from management of commercial aviation and space launch airspace, to small satellite encryption and deorbit insurance and commercial opportunities aboard the iss and future gateway. We even convened a roundtable with a commandant of the u. S. Coast guard regarding the need of greater use of spaceenabled surveillance of the arctic waterways. Suffice to say the chambers procurement and Space Industry Council has an everexpanding set of policy pursuits. Fortunately, we have an enthusiastic space industry ceo here at the chamber. After last years summit tom donahue bro an articwrote an ar which i will quote. He wrote, harnessing the economic
Panel and our panelists. I would love to be able to vote for the final package and i hope that we can Work Together to find something that will work. I sympathize with your concerns about the overregulation raising the costs to the providers. However i also have concerns about the Enforcement Authority raising the cost of reducing Enforcement Authority for the endusers. My first question has to do with the forbearance of the title to requirements as hes indicated that he is one of the forebears and even if he does this, the current concern is that the legislation may inhibit the ability to react in a just technological advance. Do you share that concern that the legislation would inhibit the ability to react . I think they have way more to react to ban is being suggested. The fcc with any act has the first instance and responsibility to interpret those decisions and enforce them across a wide range of activities. Even in the context of Specialized Service if the effect of something som
And how the world has changed but it is also the industries that have changed in the sense that this is a Corporate Structure that is out there now as well a lot of consolidation going on in Companies Getting into various areas of the business of at one point they are acting like a commentary, including a content provider and so forth. You mentioned the distinction between Information Services and Telecommunications Services in this law. Is that a meaningful distinction today . I think over time it should not be. We are entering a world in which a bid is a bed Data Networks follow radically different characteristics than the one that inform this written in the 30s or the 90s. Its one of the highly contentious issues related to ambiguity and its even more inapplicable to modern functions and modern networks and i think that we will be ironing out this governing body for years to come and how it is properly applied, networks that do not behave in the way that these are. You say in your t
Explicitly say you shall not regulate or oversee the internet under title 2. Do you agree with that . As ive testified consistently, i think the cost and damage to americans ambitions of bradband in title 2 far outweigh the benefits. I think if the narrow task before us is to create solid bullet proof Net Neutrality, which we accept, we believe that can be done without resorting to that hammer. Mr. Chairman, i want to thank the former chairman for those comments. I do believe that its wise to put this out as a draft. I think there are some very valid questions and my friends on the minority are asking some of those questions about how to perfect the language. I have some concerns myself about certain parts of the draft. But the base principle, the fact we should not regulate the internet under title 2, i think is beyond question. If we start from that premise i think the discussion draft is an excellent document and we can iron out the details through these hearings. If you take it to
Nd so long as it is not inconsistent with the rest of it. It gives a most any authority to the fcc. This is a broad expansion. I pose the question, what happens when an fcc not to their liking grabs the regulatory throttle. That means that amazon betsy and every other m internet based company should be prepared to meet its new regulator. Look no further than your fellow witnesses, mr. Powell and miss baker, former regulators who currently represent the regulated. We who are elected to write the law and set the communications policy. My priority is to protect consumers and the internet we rely upon. My priority is to encourage its expansion and to various segments of our population that are underserved and too often ignored. We have taken on complicated medications challenges and produced good legislative solutions. We are stood up to special interests and stood with the American People. The draft legislative proposal represents our good faith effort. Our committee will not ignore our r