Up next, Laura Auricchio recounts the life of marquis de lafayette and wil the role he played in the american and french revolutions. This is about one hour. Okay. Im tim marshall, provost of the new school and im delighted to welcome everyone here for this wonderful event to launch Laura Auricchios new book which is right here. [applause] the Marquis Lafayette reconsidered which came out this month published by this has been research over the course of seven years its a major biography that dont into the personal life of the passionate french hero of the American Revolution over several tumultuous decades. The book provides a depiction of some accounting figures of this historical period while eliminating and exploring the new role of the press and Public Opinion in the politics of the time. The personal letters of the marquis de lafayette which can be found in the collection of the library of congress and Cornell University provides many of the books anecdotes. A few words about laur
And move forward to address what i think are some of the legitimate issues that commissioner rally has raised. Thank you, mr. Chairman. It is a delight to have you back your thank you chairman, Ranking Member distinguished members of the community for thank you for the opportunity to share my perspectives with you this morning and my written testimony for the record i discussed the commissions work. I will focus on spectrum options. In in march 2014 we unanimously adopted a licensing and service rule to option 65 megahertz of spectrum. This was not only important for wireless carriers seeking to be skyrocketing consumer demand but it was critical for the promotion of more competitive options. My colleagues and i agreed on a plan for smaller license blocks and geographic licensed areas. We also agreed on the need for interoperability between the aws one in aws three. The securities participation, promotes competition and ensures the auction allocate spectrum to the highest and best use.
Youve got to ask yourself the question are you distributing resources as they ought to be distributed . When youve got one manager for every four people you say to yourself is this the right kind of i fully agree and understand and how do you fix that . What we would like to have is a backup for this because i understand i think we have a request pending for that and we are told, i dont know whether we were told we cant get it or whatever but we would like is my understanding is correct you asked for the consoles report, the final consultant report, and you will have it but i have it. Ive seen a draft of the structures but also set up a more detailed information. Thank you. I have exceeded my time. I recognize the gentleman from california. I will ask you for the same period thank you, mr. Chairman. Welcome again to the entire commission. Its obvious, you know, we have different takes on the issues but i sincerely thank you for your public service. The and to commissioner oreilly, this
The opportunity to show our appreciation to the fcc for its work so thank you chairman and fellow commissioners for all youve accomplished. This has been an eventful and the commission has received more than its fair share of attention and an unprecedented level of civic engagement. Americans called for a Strong Network neutrality rules and 140 members of congress engaged in the process and president expressed his opinion as well which is into something that we should be and in there is to doubt. It is the spotlight at the commission stood tall and the entire staff have shown a steadfast education to serving the Public Interest and we showed everyone who called him in and came into support of neutrality that the fcc and the rest of washington washington know washington knowhow to the same. Know how to listen. Now ive repeatedly said i welcome the majority change of heart and i remain open to looking for bipartisan way is to enshrine the Network Neutrality protections into law that afte
Those meetings but one . I dont know the details of those meetings. I cant recall the details of those meetings. I can assure you that there were no, nothing that would trigger an ex parte. So you meet with the white house multiple times during the open Comment Period after the Comment Period closes, and were supposed to believe that one of the most important things the fcc has ever done that this didnt come up and they didnt have any discussions and they didnt comment back to you. Is that what were supposed to believe . The administration was very scrupulous in making it clear that i was an independent agency and they were not telling i guess the point is chairman. You met with them multiple times. They came to visit you. You went to visit them. We invite you to come in an open and you refuse. We asked you to send us documents and you didnt send us a single one. Thats very troubling for us. I need to move on. Mr. Chairman, one thing here, i did agree to come. Im here. No before the ru