Including michael and Virginia Deputy secretary of Public Safety curtis brown is one hour and 45 minutes. The subcommittee will come to order. Rder today we meet for an update. Ont first met and the excitingcitind efforts to deploy the nationwide interoperablenationwide public t Broadband Network. I look forward to the attendance in just a moment or two and mr. Ranking member. Congress created the First Responder Network Authority to lead the Development Authority of a nationwide interoperability Safety Broadband Network in thed United States. The Communications Failures tham plague the murecovery efforts during 9 11that plagu and othern emergencies including Hurricane Katrina there was and still is the need for a Reliable Network for the Public Safety officials. Such would improve the coordination among firston on fn responders across multipleross e jurisdictions and enhance the ability of First Responders to lifesaving Services Last y quickly. The committee convened for an update on
And covestro. And President Trump promises tax relief but doesnt ignite markets by providing concrete measures. Well speak to john w. Snow in about 30 minutes time. Good morning. Welcome to the show. The french president ial candidate, Francois Fillon has reportedly been summoned by investigating magistrates. His team will make a statement noon cet. Earlier this morning he postponed his visit to the paris agricultural salon, an important fixture on the campaign trail. Yields are pointing higher, but spreads have been widening in general on political uncertainty. On top of that also this morning im seeing the french german tenyear yield gap is narrowing after the news that fillon was summoned. Were seeing a narrowing of the yield gop thap that has been wig over the past few weeks over perceived Political Risks out of france. Joining us on the phone is a Political Science professor from paris good to have you with us. Explain to us why its such a big deal that a french president ial cand
Of commerce. Our principle functions involve managing the use of spectrum by federal agencies, we have overseen a Broadband Access and Adoption Program started with the recovery act in 2009. We are overseeing the Public Safety Broadband Network development by firstnet. Then we spend a lot of time on internet policy matters both domestic and international. Host and that is where we want to start. One of the issues you have been working on is ican and whether or not it should be turned over to a group of international stakeholders. Is that on tract to happen in september . Guest in the community, yes,. In the sense of you have to go back to 1997 and 98 for the origins. But in 97, the Clinton Administration felt given the choice of having the internet grouped by government or private sector the choice was lets make sure the prive private sector managers this. So this started a long odyssey to get to where we could complete the naming. Two years ago, in the hopes of completing the privitiv
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Responders. Firstnet ceo testified before the Senate Commerce subcommittee on communications and the internet. This hearing is an hour and 20 minutes. Good morning. Glad to convene todays hearing with my friend and colleague Ranking Member shots. We would like to focus on the progress and the challenge thats lie ahead in deploying Public Safety network. Firstnet was established. Narrator middle class tax relief of job creation act of 2012. It is intended to address communication failures that slow Recovery Efforts during Major National emergencies, including the 9 11 attacks and hurricane katrina. In mississippi, we saw firsthand consequences of Communication Network break down. Fema, red cross, and others were hindered from providing the Emergency Recovery Services needed. The 2012 act allocated 7 dls billion from spectrum option proceeds to launch firstnet. The aws three spectrum option which concluded raised the 7 billion needed to begin the planning and development stage. Although