Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. And as we continue our series on the communicators talking with some of the Telecommunications Associations headquartered here in washington, week were joined by Shirley Bloomfield who is the head of the ntca, the Rural Broadband association. Shes here to talk about some of the legislative and policy issues that her association faces. Ms. Medical bloomfield, what ise ntca, first of all . Guest a National Trade association, and we represent 90 small local providers that are in pretty much every state in this country who provide what used to be, you know, just basic telephone service. Theyre now broadband providers. Theyve also become kind of the onestop shop Tech Service Providers for tear communities. They do video, wireless, data centers, they do whatever Technology Needs their communities actually require. So they actually represent their interests here in washington d.
A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from wyoming. Mr. Barrasso thank you, mr. President. I ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Barrasso and, mr. President , i ask unanimous consent to be able to speak until the top of the hour. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Barrasso thank you, mr. President. I come to the floor today as i have over the past several years to talk about issues that are affecting this country, theres a nomination that were cutsing on the floor and i have concerns about the issues related to that nominee, the way that nomination has been brought forward because it was done by what i believe to be an abuse of power, move in a way that resulted in voting in the middle of the night, discussions in the middle of the night, all in my opinion to distract from the disaster of the Obama Health Care law, the Obama Health Care law continues to affect people all across the country
We ended up jumping in syrias lap. We now sit in the back of the bus as iran and russia really drive policy in syria. One of your assistants was up here a few weeks ago and made some really reckless comments about a military strategy, if you will, in syria, and said that they would brief us. Weve had no briefing. Its been two weeks. And as the chairman mentioned, instead of that we read about something last night in the wall street journal relative to disputes between you and the pentagon. And i do hope today that you will lay out clearly for us in this open setting what our strategy is in syria and hopefully its not just allowing people to kill each other. Since chemical weapons were used another 50,000 people have been killed. Barrel bombs are being dropped indiscriminately on populations there. Assad is dragging his feet on alleviating the chemical weapons, because you knows that that prolongs his survival and continues to allow us, russia, and iran, to prop him up. So i know there
I think i first learned about l when i was in congress and i have the opportunity to be able to learn about it. I stayed with several members of us who stayede of in washington. We stayed together. I think its fair to say it was animal house on capitol hill. [laughter] one of the members as pointed out in the photograph was chuck schumer, someone you all know and has a tremendous passion for israel. The bottom of the house in this living room area and we made a bed. I tried to get him to say a hail mary and he made me say the shema. We tried to cover all the bases and we did. I learned a lot from him. The reason i guess i isticularly appreciate because i am the son of immigrants. Daughter,ur the son, grandchildren of immigrants. That story we know well. My parents came to this country in the early 1930s. We had very little money, knew very little english, few skills. Islandme through ellis and managed to make their way to my hometown of monterey. Why did he travel all of that distance
Other jurisdictions besides seattle, they will refer another database and that is what they did. We did not go in this particular case essay will you depart from your policy . This is, again, something we need to take a close look at and will be as part of the president s review. Isis problematic that there information written on a piece of paper somewhere that we did not have access to. Shocking it incredibly that we wouldnt pursue a Police Report in any of these arrest situations because the nature of the charge, looking at the underlying Police Report, having been a prosecutor, can tell us very different information and a prosecutor may not have the elements to make a particular charge and the disposition may tell us nothing. Here,eing prior behavior getting a Police Report would have set up a very different set of conduct for anyone looking at that. So i do believe we do have to change that, we do have to get the underlying reports. And if that requires coming to an understanding w