After words, talking about a book about Stephen Bannon alw ays a rebel. What odds do you give him for being able to reach his goals . So, you want me to be utterly honest or utterly hopeful . Have you come to agree with a lot of what he says . I think there is a deep chance because i think steve bannon believes the electorate has already changed. Even in the general election, donald trump was successful. He is not a perfect person, he would admit them himself by despite a lot of controversy he was elected. I think what anna believes is already the longing for populism whatationalism i think steve bannon already believes is the longing for populism and nationalism is already there. At some point, particularly the senate, is driving him. Announcer watch sunday night at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan twos booktv. This week, the federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote on a proposition that prohibits internet providers from blocking and slowing internet content. Brendan carr gav
So im with the American Consumer institute. Its a pleasure to be here today and thank you all for coming. Of importance is on thursday the federal Communications Commission holds one of its December Open meeting and deals with one of several very important topics and the issue today is the order to restore the Internet Freedom which includes a number of important provisions, one is classifying Broadband Access services as an Information Service as it was once before, removing the ambiguous internet conduct standard and the bright line rules, reestablishing the private mobile Service Classification for mobile broadband and promoting Internet Service provider transparency among other things and the transparency issue is very important to us because it helps give consumers better information to make better decisions. But theres a lot of noise out there, confusion, misinformation on what will mean for consumers and today we have a panel of experts that will address the issues but first id
Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or to change their vote . If not the yeas are 53. The nays are 43. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from utah. Mr. Lee i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to legislative session for a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Lee mr. President , earlier today the f. C. C. Voted to reverse a major impediment to a free and open internet. The title 2 internet regulations that were imposed under president obama in 2015. These regulations are commonly referred to as Net Neutrality. So for the sake of convenience, thats what i will call them. I want to congratulate f. C. C. Chairman
Today is going to be a fine day to be outside. Nicer than yesterday. Even though yesterday afternoon was nice, we sure started off with the rain around. And today we dont need to worry about rain drops, pretty much start to finish. Except for the Shenandoah Valley, out to the mountains of West Virginia. But otherwise a nice morning. Your weather headlines for sunday morning, plenty of sunshine and near perfect afternoon for Outdoor Activities here in the metro area. Clouds coming back in tonight and tomorrow and stronger storms as we get into tuesday afternoon. More on that coming up. Out the door some thick fog, half mile visibility in frederick, maryland. A mile visibility in culpepper and over a mile in winchester. So locally dense fog first thing this morning. Temperatures cool 60s to around 70 downtown. Nice morning, 60s for most of the morning. Might touch 90 degrees at national airport. More about the rain chances increasing as we go back to work tomorrow coming up. All right ch
Police have not identified suspects at this hour but the heart broken mother we spoke with says that shes ready for answers. Over 200 friends and Community Members assembled with candles and prayer near the corner of 12th and ritner. Where three bullets killed two teenager boys. The shooting and vigil took place outside of the home of one of the victims, 16yearold sal dinubile, a junior at st. Joes prep. Ten miles from there, grief filled a Family Living room in overbrook. He was a good kid. Its one thing if he was bad. The only thing he love doing was playing basketball. Reporter that is the mother of victim k, a leer miller, also 16. She proudly displayed photos of her son through the year, a boy turned young man quiet, mathematically skilled. An honor student. He transferred this career with the hope of earning a basketball scholarship for college im angry. Mad. Im heart broken. Everything. Because this shouldnt have been. This shouldnt have been. Reporter he was shot once in the ch