Tennessee. The subcommittee on communications and technology will now come to order. The chair now recognizes herself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. And i want to welcome you all to the subcommittees hearing titled oversight and reauthorization of the federal communications commission. I appreciate the commissioners appearing to offer their testimony today. And we appreciate that we have been able to hear from you in advance of this hearing. The fcc has not been rethorsoned since 1990 appear its current appropriation is over 430 million its charged with the administration of the Communications Act and other statutes vital to the functioning of the communications policy. We must reexamine the Core Functions of the commission and restore a culture of hul humility. The fcc plays a vital rode in the increasingly technologically dent society. The subcommittee released a draft for consideration. I would be remiss by not discussing net neutral the commissioning ins 2015 was a powe
Cspan3. Dr. Kirk newman on his book hearing children. The a surgeons story on the front lines of pediatric medicine. The conversations i hear are cutting things like medicaid and cutting the nih and doing all these things when were on the cusp of such terrific discoveries and when you think about half of the people that are on medicaid, half, of the beneficiaries are children, so whose going to get hurt. Why do we want to do that . Were not doing that to the elderly on medicare, why would we want to do that . We should double down and put more into our children. Watch the entire Program Saturday at 7 00 p. M. Eastern. Also on book tv on cspan2, david good hart on his book the road to some wrrks the pop lift revoelt and you see this in the contempt that people in my email chain after brexit. You had left wing professors why did we give these people the vote without some kind of iq test. For more go to book tv. Org. The Senate Finance Committee Held a hearing last week to consider Presid
Join the discussion. Justice Department Officials agentied at the foreign registration act, which requires all to register with the government and disclose finances and recommended changes to the law and how it is enforced. Charles grassley chairs the Judiciary Committee. His is 1. 5 hours all today the committee will examine the Justice Departments enforcement of the Foreign Agents registration act. I want to thank the witnesses here today for working with the committee to schedule this hearing. I know that some of you even had to change your travel plans and i want you to know that the committee appreciates your cooperation. We had to postpone this hearing while trying to schedule two new witnesses and obtain the cooperation of a third who was first invited on july 5. It is unfortunate when uncooperative witnesses cause unnecessary inconvenience for those of you who are easy to work with. After he failed to negotiate to with the committee in good faith, i issued a subpoena in coopera
Mr. Graham hes back. So the third amigo. Heres the state of play. All three of us support the idea of continuing the process to get a good outcome for the American People when it comes to replacing obamacare. To find a product thats better for the American People. I have a bunch of ideas. Everybody has ideas. Weve been asked by our leadership for days now to vote on the least common denominator, the skinny bill, because the pitch is if you vote for this skinny bill, then we can go to conference and we can get my bill scored, we can get ted cruzs bill scored, we can get other peoples bills scored that has promise of maybe bringing us together. But theyre not scored yet. That makes imminent sense to me with one condition. We actually go to conference. Theres the increasing concern on my part and others that what the house will do is take whatever we pass, the socalled skinny bill, not take it to conference, go directly to the house floor, vote on it, and that goes to the president s desk
Mr. Graham hes back. So the third amigo. Heres the state of play. All three of us support the idea of continuing the process to get a good outcome for the American People when it comes to replacing obamacare. To find a product thats better for the American People. I have a bunch of ideas. Everybody has ideas. Weve been asked by our leadership for days now to vote on the least common denominator, the skinny bill, because the pitch is if you vote for this skinny bill, then we can go to conference and we can get my bill scored, we can get ted cruzs bill scored, we can get other peoples bills scored that has promise of maybe bringing us together. But theyre not scored yet. That makes imminent sense to me with one condition. We actually go to conference. Theres the increasing concern on my part and others that what the house will do is take whatever we pass, the socalled skinny bill, not take it to conference, go directly to the house floor, vote on it, and that goes to the president s desk