Auburn rights s first peoples. Mr secretary, can you please take the roll . Good morning. Thank you. President nixon commissioners, please. Prawn respond with president when i call your name. President martha knewton president , Vice President janet spears present commissioner sasha bittner. Let me meet you. Commissioner, can you hear me . Shes present. Yeah again. Okay. Got it. Thank you. Commissioner wanted zhang president well hello. Okay commissioner, Linda Parker Pennington present commissioner nelson lum. Present commissioner barbara score. Not present and dos executive director kelly, german president. President clinton. We have a quorum. Thank you. Alright commissioners. The next item is item three communications. Wed like to provide further instructions for the Public Comment process. Public comment will be available in each item on this agenda. Hello. We should make sure commissioner bittner can you hear us . I dont think so. Commissioner. Peter can you hear us now . Yeah, pe
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] well, good morning pete the subcommittee will come to order the chair recognizes himself an Opening Statement. Good morning welcome back before the subcommittee. Assistant secretary davidson the National Telecommunication Information Administration has been very busy since the last time you appeared for us and may. In a june nci or allocated the money for the broadbent equity access to the states. This amounts to 42. 5 billion dollars. Since then states have submitted their fiveyear action plan the infrastructure at law strict requirements such as ensuring funding achieves universal connectivity and prohibiting great regulations. I am concerned some of the state plans are calls for more federal funding required by the law and blatant efforts by states to engage in rate regulation of broadband services. Thankfully and cia has rejectedt his and his attempt including for my home state of ohio. Though it overrode existing networks in opti
Auburn rights s first peoples. Mr secretary, can you please take the roll . Good morning. Thank you. President nixon commissioners, please. Prawn respond with president when i call your name. President martha knewton president , Vice President janet spears present commissioner sasha bittner. Let me meet you. Commissioner, can you hear me . Shes present. Yeah again. Okay. Got it. Thank you. Commissioner wanted zhang president well hello. Okay commissioner, Linda Parker Pennington present commissioner nelson lum. Present commissioner barbara score. Not present and dos executive director kelly, german president. President clinton. We have a quorum. Thank you. Alright commissioners. The next item is item three communications. Wed like to provide further instructions for the Public Comment process. Public comment will be available in each item on this agenda. Hello. We should make sure commissioner bittner can you hear us . I dont think so. Commissioner. Peter can you hear us now . Yeah, pe
Sinclair and on wednesday we looked at chicken fat factories and labor production and the chicken industry here in the American South today, were going to be looking at Agricultural Labor. And as i said, those in the room were vegetarians are not off the hook. In fact, we have to of think about the ways in which agriculture, natural labor, has often been exploited and that very difficult conditions under which the vegetables that we eat are often consumed. Theres been a very large rise in the recent years about the importance of eating locally and eating more vegetarian style food and more vegetables. Michael pollan, many of you might have heard of, he wrote the omnivores dilemma as well as food rules. He had sort of a catch phrase that was very popular, which was eat food, not too much, mostly plants. And this is probably pretty good advice for those of us who are concerned about our health. But the idea was that, you know, we should eat less meat. And again, we should eat things that
Foodways. And if weve talked about the beef industry on monday and looked at the jungle in Upton Sinclair and on wednesday we looked at chicken fat factories and labor production and the chicken industry here in the American South today, were going to be looking at Agricultural Labor. And as i said, those in the room were vegetarians are not off the hook. In fact, we have to of think about the ways in which agriculture, natural labor, has often been exploited and that very difficult conditions under which the vegetables that we eat are often consumed. Theres been a very large rise in the recent years about the importance of eating locally and eating more vegetarian style food and more vegetables. Michael pollan, many of you might have heard of, he wrote the omnivores dilemma as well as food rules. He had sort of a catch phrase that was very popular, which was eat food, not too much, mostly plants. And this is probably pretty good advice for those of us who are concerned about our healt