Im randy may, president of the Free State Foundation and im pleased to welcome you to the Free State Foundations ninth annual Telecom Policy conference i want to extend an especially warm welcome to our cspan audience. Im going to selfconfessed, i may cspan junkie. Some of you may have heard me say that before. My mom may she rest in peace she always worried a told her that i was a cspan junkie never really knowing what i meant by that. Im always pleased and grateful when cspan is here. Welcome, to the cspan audience. This years annual Conference Follows on the heels of the 10th Anniversary Gala last december, so next year annual conference will be in double digits for this event, also. It confirms the old adage that time flies when youre having fun and i might add it when you busy as well. Almost every year i say some of you know this i say our annual Telecom Policy conference just keeps getting bigger, better and more impactful. Well, as long as it remains true im going to keep sayin
Telecommunication policy conference in washington at the National Press club. Thats where fcc chair pie was joined by Administration Officials and leaders. Well show you about three hours of this conference and well start with the discussion on the future of the internet. Okay. Well, everyone is so quiet that i think we should get started. That was really that was really good. Im randy may, president of the Free State Foundation, and im pleased to welcome you to the Free State Foundations ninth annual Telecom Policy conference. I want to extend an especially warm welcome to our cspan audience. Im a selfconfessed cspan junkie. Some of you may have heard me say that before. My mom, may she rest in peace, she always worried when i told her i was a cspan junkie, not really knowing what i meant by that, but im always pleased and grateful when cspan is here, and welcome to the cspan audience. This years annual Conference Follows on the heels of the tenth Anniversary Gala last december. So wi
All the time with a business background your employees, customers, but it seems to me we should do the same with government but unfortunately it does not happen very often. And made was on the board of the Housing Authority and shirley after i realized he had a fiveyear term appointed by the governor and could not be fired. He had no with a worthy with a Funding Source that was independent than they have 6,000 families waiting to come in from out of the pull them have a public Housing Authority spending money on pewter programs for prison inmates. As well as in a request from the board held the operation was performed was ignored. That they found out there respective tries to build a onebedroom apartment they had a Single Family home on a quarter acre. So we would change the law to be sure the executive director reported to the board with financial controls by the time we left the cost per unit had dropped 45 and we helped hundreds more families. And i am looking at the cftc cfpb the r
The need to end our reliance on russian engines. We actually put our money where our mouth is. We added 133. 6 million on top of the 84. 4 million requested by the president to accelerate the development of the new rocket engine. 100 billion authorized by the Defense Authorization committee. So we are making certain that we are going to end this reliance on russian engines. The question is how we manage the space launch through several years of launches before we have that engine. We need to do it without jeopardizing our National Security. The general provision which i referred to allows for space launch competition in 2016 without regard to the source of an engine. It will permit real competition on four missions in 2016, and it will avoid trading one monopoly for another. I think ive explained how weve reached this point. I think there is good faith on i think there is good faith on i think theres good faith on both sides. I dont question the motives of the Senior Citizens in senato
The oversight investigations subcommittee will come to order. The time at the hearing is examining the Consumer Financial Protection Bureaus mass Data Collection program. Without objection the chair soccer sadrist to declare recess of the subcommittee at any time and without objection all members will have five legislative days in which to submit extraneous materials to the chair for inclusion in the record. The chair recognizes himself for four minutes to give an opening statement. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is fundamentally passed with protecting americans from unfair or deceptive and abusive financial practices. Ironically as it was sold of a massive Data Collection activities the cfpb is putting all americans all of us at risk. From january 2012 to july of 2014 the cfpb carried out 12 largescale Data Collections including the monthly collection of data affecting hundreds of millions of credit card accounts, 173 million mortgages as well as information on 10. 7 million