The electrical grid is under attack and then the power sector is all too familiar with the devastation storms like Hurricane Sandy can leave behind and the physical attacks like the 2013 incident and the sub cap station in california. 2013 incident in the substation in california. Thankfully in the cases of storms and physical attacks, the sector has strong plans in place and the systems to restore the power quickly and to avoid the loss of life and property. I am concerned about a cyber attack. Are there similar plans in place for the industry and for the state and local government . Will those provide the same types of protection . Most recently i have been discussing this topic with those in my district asking what they will do in their communities if the power is out for a long period of time. Honestly, most of them do not know because we dont know what to plan for. We have brought together the right people here to tell us today. We are also going to discuss what preparedness looks
President ial race continues tuesday night for the new york state primary. Join us at 9 00 for viewer reaction and speeches, taking you on the road to the white house on cspan, cspan radio, in cspan. Org. Monday on of the communicators, george ford, chief economist of the Phoenix Center for Public Policy studies and mark cooper, Research Director for the Consumer Federation of america, debate the secs proposal allowing consumers to buy their own settop boxes instead of renting them from cable providers, a move to open up competition in the settop box market. They are joined by lydia bay ude. We think we need competition in the settop box market, and we want competition, competition, competition. Someplace who has worked; some places it hasnt. This is one where it really hasnt. We the lower prices and more choices with vigorous competition. The first question is is there a market for settop boxes . The answer really, in terms of what has been over the cable network, is no, because they
This is just over an hour. Thanks to everyone. Welcome. Great to see so many people here. Todays panel is entitled tale of two agencies. The overlapping jurisdiction of the fcc and ftc. My name is kelly donahue. Im a partner at a firm based here in washington d. C. And im also a member of the Federalist Society telecommunication and Electronic Media practice group. Before i get started i would like to make some brief introductions. From the federal communications commissioner, we have ajid. He was sworn in in 2012. And during his tenure he has focused on a Regulatory Environment that fosters competition and sought to remove uncertainty by creating clear modernized rules for the road. Previously the commissioner was a partner at the law firm of general and block and held positions in the general councils office. From the federal trade commission we have commissioner maurine olhausen. She has been a strong advocate of Government Transparency and Consumer Protection. Prior to joining the
To come down on them like a ton of bricks if they make a mistake that they rectify because what happens is, if theres not consumer harm, and they werent doing it to get benefit for themselves. It was just were an oversight. We are discouraging them from even trying to make promises to even trying to make promises, even trying to give consumers extra choices. I think it is a dual approach. We need to do, get out, give them information. But also in our enforcement action use our prosecutorial discretion and not hold a Small Company that didnt cause any arm to some sort of really draconian standard. Commissioner . Let me add quickly the Small Business aspect is important. I agree with everything she says. There are 4,462 Service Providers in the United States. The vast majority of them are relatively small. When you talk to people who support Net Neutrality, what they are concerned about is not their Service Provider blocking content or throatling content they want more choices. They want
Just terrible. Yes, all right. All right. I have got plenty to say. Not everybody is liking warm temperatures they want fall like stuff. The just wait a few days. Exactly. I promise, in problems. This morning though looking good though again your ride and commute, no issues as far as weather goes. We will be battling sun glare, live look at center city a and high level cloud right now but not producing any rainfall. The heres the setup, this is what were talking about. High temperatures above average. Record are in the 90es, not close to that. Rain chance does return for friday and that will Cool Temperatures down in the weekend. Nice fall like weekend does shape up across the region. Sixtyone the warm spot at the airport in philadelphia we are looking at lower 50s in south jersey. Yesterday morning we have 40s and even 30s. We are not seeing that. Jacket weather in the suburbs, but that sunshine will go to work, once it comes up around 7 00 oclock this morning and still cloudiness ove