Rural areas. Would you let them get the support if they offered broadband as a standalone service. Second, rate of return carriers could get into a similar connect america fund for price gap carriers. And the a cam model isnt perfect but nonetheless if rate of return carriers find it acceptable, they should be given a limited window to be able to do that. Thank you. Chairman wheeler, these are all rural questions for Rural Service so it is really appealing to the constituency, a third of illinois, like a lot of the rural illinoiss. This is on a drop call issue still. I go to my family owned phone companies or the coops i still have out there and i think we talked about it the last couple of hearings that weve been with you, and it it is the intermediate carriers, the least cost reuters seem to be the problem. Can you tell me because you know the Companies Get blamed and it is an intermediate carrier doing it and it creates a whole lot of problems. Thank you, congressman, yes. You put y
Its one of the fastestgrowing regions in the world. Africas middle class is projected to grow to more than one billion consumers. With hundreds of millions of mobile phones and surging access to the internet, africans are beginning to leapfrog old technologies into new prosperity. The continent has achieved historic gains in health, from fighting hiv aids to making childbirth safer for women and babies. Millions have been lifted from extreme poverty. So this is extraordinary progress. And young people like you are driving so much of this progress because africa is the youngest continent. I saw the power of youth on my trip. In kenya, Richard Ruto Todosia helped build yes youth can, one of the countys most Prominent Civil Society groups, with over one million members. At the Global Entrepreneurship summit in nairobi, shadi sabeh spoke about how he started Brilliant Footsteps Academy in nigeria, which uses education to fight religious extremism and provide more opportunities for muslim y
It puts people on a level Playing Field when it comes to those kinds of issues. Ohio, newcan from york democrat, colorado republican. Eastern ont at 8 00 the communicators on cspan 2. Theext, president obama in meeting with Young African leaders. After that, todd akin. Then a discussion about efforts to improve Health Care Services for military veterans. The British Parliament is in recess this month, so the prime ministers questions will not be seen tonight. As a Young African Leaders Summit on monday, president obama announced new efforts to expand the program and renamed it the Mandela Washington fellowship all stop the fellowship is made up of 500 subsaharan africas most missing leaders between 25 and 35. Didnt attend a sixweek program focusing on civic leadership and public management. The summit was held just prior to president obama hosting african heads of state at the white house. His town hall with a Young Leaders ran just over an hour. To introduce the president , flees welc
I think it is safe to say that bill bennett says conservativism will never be a Popular Movement as long as it is perceived to be against the interests of minorities. In many ways, we have earned that perception. As bill also said that when liberals see blacks, they see a sea of it comes and conservatives see a sea of aliens. It is important to acknowledge that in the 1960s when conservatives talk about limited, small government, hostility to Central Government it was not for Central Government intervention in the states, we would not be sitting here. Just knowledge in the past doesnt mean we arent stuck there and it changes as our circumstances change. Back in the 1960s, it was important for Central Government intervene, but today Central Government interferes with ability. You cannot generalize about black community anymore any other. Theres a poster in my Office Written by bill raspberry when he was a reporter for the post. Its as poor negroes will not benefit from the gains of the
Their possibilities, the skys the limit. It is limitless. There is no reason the nation of africa cannot and should not join the ranks of the worlds most prosperous nations in the nearterm, in the decades ahead. There is simply no reason. As we look to the future to try to help realize that vision, the question is no longer, when i got here as a young man on the Senate Foreign relations committee, the question was always what can we do for africa . That is no longer the question. It is what can we do with africa. Not what can we do for africa. What can we do together . And i mean that. And the president means it as well. There is a significant opportunity for the United States and africa to do more that benefit both of our communities. This is americas economic selfinterest. Billion in u. S. Exports to quarterlready support a of a million american jobs here in the united dates. States. African consumers are spending 1. 3 trillion, and that is projected to double by the year 2030. Time,